{"id":638,"date":"2011-11-10T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=638"},"modified":"2011-11-10T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:05:28","slug":"cbs-atlanta-falls-for-bogus-lie-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/cbs-atlanta-falls-for-bogus-lie-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Atlanta Falls for Bogus Lie Detector"},"content":{"rendered":"
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T.J. Ward demos Layered Voice Analysis for CBS Atlanta's Mike Paluska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On Wednesday, 9 November 2011, CBS Atlanta aired an interview<\/a> with private investigator T.J. Ward<\/a>, who used a computer program to analyze recorded statements by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain and Sharon Bialek, who alleges that Cain made a sexual advance on her when she sought his help getting a job. According to Ward’s software, Cain “is being truthful, totally truthful”\u00a0in denying Bialek’s claim, while Bialek “is fabricating what transpired.”<\/p>\n

Ward claimed his software cost $15,000 and has an accuracy rate of 95%. While CBS Atlanta did not disclose the name of this software, a link<\/a> on Ward’s website indicates that it is\u00a0Layered Voice Analysis<\/a>\u00a0(LVA), a program developed by Amir Liberman’s Nemesysco, Ltd., an Israeli company. This software was completely discredited by Swedish linguists Anders Eriksson and Francisco Lacerda in a 2007 article titled “Charlatanry in Speech Science: A Problem to Be Taken Seriously” (International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law,<\/em> Vol. 14, No. 2). For more on LVA, see “Nemesysco Founder Amir Liberman Is a Charlatan.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Not that it matters (LVA being pseudoscientific flapdoodle), but it is perhaps worth observing that private investigator T.J. Ward had chosen the setting for analyzing a male<\/strong> voice when conducting his analysis of Sharon Bialek’s remarks:<\/p>\n

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CBS Atlanta should have done its homework before running with a “news” story based on emperor’s-new-clothes technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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