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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 6 months ago
    Lie detectors required for all public servants and candidates speaking in public?
    The story doesn't say how well it works on politicians and other sociopaths.
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    • Posted by khalling 9 years, 6 months ago
      actually, I think lie detectors are not scientific and not that accurate. They trip up honest people. It's like prove you're innocence before the govt proves you're guilty. it's like the worst sort of hearsay. Someone who wasn't at the scene, has no knowledge of what happened, gets to be the judge, jury and executioner of your right to freely travel.
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      • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 6 months ago
        Anyone can train themselves to beat so called lie detectors--it's just bio-feedback and a mindset. Not even serious fMRI researchers believe in such things on an applied basis.
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  • Posted by Lucky 9 years, 6 months ago
    This will create a market for training courses on how to beat the machines. There are certain people, psychopaths(?), who have that ability naturally. Politicians have the ability to speak without thought, a very useful attribute if the machine is noting pauses.
    Then, the amount of money spent on the courses, as well as the cost of the machines, will go into the GNP and used to show how much better off we are from the new security.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 6 months ago
    Existing polygraph lie detectors are unreliable. Their main value is in freaking out the suspect into worrying that _maybe_ the technology might work. In someone struggling to maintain a web of lies, this is one more thing to trip them up.

    They said the new technology is 15% better than baseline. If the baseline in polygraph, to me that means not at all, unless you count psyching out the subject being tested.
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