{"id":2934,"date":"2001-03-28T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2001-03-28T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T13:02:33","slug":"bloomberg-cites-polygraph-in-a-denial-of-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/28\/bloomberg-cites-polygraph-in-a-denial-of-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bloomberg Cites Polygraph in a Denial of Harassment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Elisabeth Bumiller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/03\/28\/nyregion\/bloomberg-cites-polygraph-in-a-denial-of-harassment.html\">reports<\/a> for the <em>New York Times.<\/em> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire who is a likely Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, said in a statement yesterday that a lie detector test administered in January showed that he was truthful in denying allegations of sexual harassment by a former employee.<\/p><p>Mr. Bloomberg, who was traveling yesterday in Israel, said in the statement that he had decided to take the test &#8220;because I expected that those allegations would surface in the news media as I began to explore the possibility of entering the mayor&#8217;s race.&#8221;<\/p><p>He also released a statement from the man who administered the test, Paul K. Minor, a former chief polygraph examiner at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. &#8220;The questions during that examination were formulated solely by me,&#8221; Mr. Minor said in the statement. &#8220;I concluded that all of Mr. Bloomberg&#8217;s responses were truthful.&#8221;<\/p><p>Accompanying the statement of Mr. Minor, who is now the president of a private security company in Fairfax, Va., was an eight-page r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Mr. Minor did not disclose what specific questions he asked Mr. Bloomberg and did not return telephone calls made to his office yesterday.<\/p><p>Mr. Bloomberg was reacting to an article in yesterday&#8217;s Daily News that revived news of a 1997 sexual harassment suit filed by Sekiko Sekai Garrison, a former employee of Mr. Bloomberg&#8217;s giant financial information and media company, Bloomberg L.P.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>New York voters should be aware that polygraph &#8220;testing&#8221; has not been demonstrated by peer-reviewed scientific research to operate at above chance levels of accuracy under field conditions. Indeed, polygraph &#8220;testing&#8221; is not a science-based procedure at all (See Chapter 1 of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/pubs.shtml\">The Lie Behind the Lie Detector<\/a>).<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010302041952\/http:\/\/www.aisc-online.com\/paul.html\">Paul K. Minor&#8217;s<\/a> reading of Mr. Bloomberg&#8217;s polygraph charts is without probative value.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elisabeth Bumiller reports for the New York Times. Excerpt: Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire who is a likely Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, said in a statement yesterday that a lie detector test administered in January showed that he was truthful in denying allegations of sexual harassment by a former employee. Mr. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[314,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-2934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-michael-r-bloomberg","8":"tag-paul-k-minor","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}