{"id":3071,"date":"2001-07-11T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2001-07-11T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:43:03","slug":"detecting-lies-in-lie-detectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/07\/11\/detecting-lies-in-lie-detectors\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Detecting Lies in Lie Detectors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Howard Fienberg, a research analyst with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stats.org\">Statistical Assessment Service<\/a> (STATS), a non-profit, non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010720122848\/http:\/\/www.stats.org\/statswork\/polygraph.htm\">writes<\/a> for <em>The Providence Journal.<\/em> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The parents of missing Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy do not believe that U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., has revealed all he knows of her whereabouts. Although police investigators are satisfied with Condit&#8217;s answers, the Levys want him to take a polygraph (popularly known as a lie-detector) test.<\/p><p>Polygraphs are such familiar instruments, whether in criminal investigations or job-background checks, that few question the reliability or validity of polygraph testing. But how well do these devices really detect lies?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Fienberg, a research analyst with the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), a non-profit, non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC writes for The Providence Journal. Excerpt: The parents of missing Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy do not believe that U.S. Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., has revealed all he knows of her whereabouts. Although police &#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":[343,342,345],"class_list":{"0":"post-3071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-chandra-levy","8":"tag-gary-condit","9":"tag-howard-fienberg","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","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=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3072,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}