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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (Steve "Blore" Howard)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Urinalysis...Lie Detectors...
Message-ID: <1599@udenva.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-May-86 16:47:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 27 16:47:49 1986
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In article <683@tekig5.UUCP> david@tekig5.UUCP (David Hayes) writes:
>
>A lie detector will not detect the truth.  What it will do is inform
>the operator that you have shown a nervous reaction to the question.
>This can be interpreted as a lie.  If you were asked whether you had
>ever "bopped" your best friends SO,  you would probably have a reaction
>even if you had only THOUGHT about it.
>
  It's not even that good.  A "lie detector" will indicate whether you
exhibit certain physical signs which are associated with stress, or a
nervous reaction, which may be associated with not telling the truth.  
It takes a very skilled polygraph operator to determine anything at all
from a session, and simply strapping a subject to the box and asking him
a long string of questions will produce results that are worse than useless.

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