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From: dts@gitpyr.UUCP (Danny Sharpe)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...
Message-ID: <1818@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-May-86 12:58:34 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 12:58:34 1986
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Reply-To: dts@gitpyr.UUCP (Danny Sharpe)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia
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In article <840@bentley.UUCP> kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
>In article <180@fai.UUCP> fai!ronc writes:
>[story about LSD-spiked coffee machine]
>>Even then they will never be able to pass a lie detector test if asked
>>the question "have you ever taken an illegal drug".
>
>They didn't "take" the drug; they were "given" it.  If the testee honestly
>believes this interpretation, he should be able to pass a polygraph test.
>(Besides, what's wrong with answering "not intentionally" and giving the
>full story?)


I can see the testee being made to feel ashamed and guilty about it, like
women are often made to feel about being raped.  It comes with being part
of a society that stigmatizes these things.  If the testee feels shame and
guilt then it doesn't matter much to the lie detector test whether they
took the drug deliberately or not.

                                                   -Danny



-- 

--  "How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed
    to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations
    and my state of mind?"  --

Danny Sharpe
School of ICS
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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