{"id":3360,"date":"2002-01-17T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2002-01-17T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:05:44","slug":"debate-surrounds-value-of-polygraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/17\/debate-surrounds-value-of-polygraph\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Debate Surrounds Value of Polygraph&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p><em>Cape Cod Times<\/em> staff writers Karen Jeffrey and Emily C. Dooley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capecodonline.com\/cctimes\/debatesurrounds17.htm\">report<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Asking a murder victim&#8217;s father to take a polygraph test is not an unusual tact for police, according to experts on both sides of the polygraph issue.<\/p><p>Family and close associates of a victim are the first people police should look at during a homicide investigation, said David Lykken, a leading critic of polygraphs and author of the book &#8220;A Tremor in the Blood.&#8221;<\/p><p>&#8220;Where I diverge from police is in the use of a polygraph in general,&#8221; said Lykken, a professor emeritus from the psychology department at the University of Minnesota. &#8220;Polygraphs are not accurate indicators of truthfulness.&#8221;<\/p><p>Christopher Worthington, father of Truro murder victim Christa Worthington, is one of several people police will ask to take what is commonly known as a lie-detector test.<\/p><p>Another potential candidate for a polygraph could be Tony Jackett, the father of Worthington&#8217;s 21\/2-year-old daughter, Ava.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Cod Times staff writers Karen Jeffrey and Emily C. Dooley report. Excerpt: Asking a murder victim&#8217;s father to take a polygraph test is not an unusual tact for police, according to experts on both sides of the polygraph issue. Family and close associates of a victim are the first people police should look at &#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":[377,378],"class_list":{"0":"post-3360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-christa-worthington","8":"tag-massachusetts","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","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=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3361,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}