{"id":3087,"date":"2001-07-17T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2001-07-17T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2021-02-20T06:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T11:24:22","slug":"off-the-graph-polygraphs-fail-to-weed-out-liars-from-talented-test-takers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/07\/17\/off-the-graph-polygraphs-fail-to-weed-out-liars-from-talented-test-takers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Off the Graph: Polygraphs Fail to Weed Out Liars from Talented Test-Takers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The Wichita Falls, Texas <em>Times Record News<\/em> addresses polygraphy in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trnonline.com\/stories\/07172001\/editorial\/26087.shtml\">editorial<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>U.S. Rep. Gary Condit may or may not have had anything to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy.<\/p><p>But, we won&#8217;t get any closer to the truth of the matter if we&#8217;re going to depend on lie detectors to get us there.<\/p><p>In fact, no truth at all was served last week when Condit, who is under intense pressure to admit he knows something &#8212; anything &#8212; about the whereabouts of the missing intern, submitted himself to a lie detector test.<\/p><p>Since he hired his own lie-detecting outfit and paid for the test himself, law-enforcement officials are discounting the test&#8217;s outcome as not credible.<\/p><p>But the truth of the matter is that no lie-detector test is credible, regardless of who administers it.<\/p><p>That&#8217;s been either forgotten in the national frenzy over Condit&#8217;s affairs and Levy&#8217;s whereabouts or the cops and major news reporters never knew it in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wichita Falls, Texas Times Record News addresses polygraphy in this editorial. Excerpt: U.S. Rep. Gary Condit may or may not have had anything to do with the disappearance of Chandra Levy. But, we won&#8217;t get any closer to the truth of the matter if we&#8217;re going to depend on lie detectors to get us &#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],"class_list":{"0":"post-3087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-chandra-levy","8":"tag-gary-condit","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","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=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}