Yea i thought lie detectors were not used because they dont work/prove anything.
They just use them on chatshows and tv because it looks legit.
Yea i thought lie detectors were not used because they dont work/prove anything.
They just use them on chatshows and tv because it looks legit.
If I drive the car that helps bank robbers escape capture, I am guilty.
If I help a criminal hide or remove evidence of their crime, I am guilty.
If I knowingly help another person commit a crime, I am guilty.
I don't see the problem here. He was helping people commit a crime and knowingly so.
They still use them over there? A lie detector (the name alone is a lie already) has no place in a courtroom. In germany, the only place that might use lie detectors are talkshows, as a cheap gimmick.
Q: Did you fuck your girlfriend's BFF?
A: No
[Big red sign that reads "LIE"]
Audience: BOOOOOO!
Don't you feel entertained? Brb, I need a coffee...
Ive always wanted to try a lie detector. I can get sweaty palms on command by just remembering a specific ride in an amusement park which involves going too many meters up in the air and then falling down. I fucking hate heights.
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Thats why they usually call them polygraphs.
Lie detectors are a joke for anyone with a bit of self control. A little training and it will tell exactly what you decide. (and for people who have none, the false-positives rate is incredibly high)
I never understood why they're still in use in the US. Almost no other country still use these faulty things, I think only India and US consider they have any value in court.
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Lie detector shouldn't even exist anymore. It's a physiological tool, it doesn't tell if you lie or not.
The "lie detector" test is administered by policy to most (if not all) federal employees. In the case of organizations such as the NSA it's given as often as every few months. It is, for all intent, the same as the drug test you might be forced to take for any other job.
Dixon, knowing full well who he was teaching and what he was teaching them, assisted those people in "interfering" with a "governmental proceeding." (Apparently this violates a law.) If that violates an existing law then he screwed up. He deserves jail time.
Polygraphs are pseudo-scientific bullshit and the fact that the government relies on them so much that people teaching how to get around them are prosecuted is crazy. It's like prosecuting someone who is offering to bonk you on the head to help you pass a phrenology exam!
"Lie detectors" aren't even a thing.
Polygraphs measure the physiological signs of stress.
In order for it to act as a "Lie detector" the subject first has to believe that it works. The "baseline" questions will make the subject comfortable with telling the truth. But because they believe it works, they will then become stressed out if they feel compelled to lie (because they believe they are hooked up to a machine that can tell the difference).
But if you aren't susceptible to such a suggestion, and you don't believe it works, then whether or not you feel stressed by a particular question has nothing to do with whether or not you are telling teh truth.
So the fact that this is a news story, I'm sorry, this is as "loony-bin" as any news headline that has the name "Hugo Chavez" in it. Yes. I just compared the US to Venezuela.
Doesn't this send the message they should arrest everyone that shows us how to beat a lie detector test? Like the guy in the Penn and Teller video telling the entire nation on T.V.
Man, this list of Tyrannical things the Government does is getting larger and larger.