AntiPolygraph.org Message Board

(UTC)

Welcome, Guest. Please Login or Register

News:

You can enhance your privacy when browsing and posting to this forum by using the free and open source Tor Browser and posting as a guest (using a fake e-mail address such as nobody@nowhere.com) or registering with a free, anonymous ProtonMail e-mail account. Registered users can exchange private messages with other registered users and receive notifications.

In addition, check out our live chat server.

AntiPolygraph.org Message Board › Polygraph and CVSA Forums › Share Your Polygraph or CVSA Experience › Add Poll ( Re: Meet the Folks/Meet the Parents )

Topic Summary - Displaying 8 post(s).

Posted by: Marty Posted on: Oct 21^st, 2002 at 5:59am	Mark & Quote Quote
Reminds me of Lord Acton's Dictum: "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" http://www.libertystory.net/LSTHINKACTON.html One consequence of technological advance is the leverage it provides in all sorts of areas. With any luck we won't use it to self extinguish. -Marty

Posted by: Fair Chance Posted on: Oct 21^st, 2002 at 4:48am	Mark & Quote Quote
As inferred by many a thread at this website, do we REALLY want a way to read people's minds or "tell the truth?" I believe that it would truly be a scary power for anyone to posess. My question would be, "Who is wise enough to posess this power and not abuse it?" Not I.

Posted by: Skeptic
Posted on: Oct 20^th, 2002 at 11:12pm

Mark & Quote

Quote

Seeker wrote on Oct 20^th, 2002 at 10:09pm:

Once again the American population is duped into believing that there is an existance of a magical mysitcal thing called a lie detector!
How desperately we seek to find quick fixes at the price of innocents.
Shame on us.

I believe that it is simply human nature to take the "easy road", unless compelling reasons can be found to not do so. In general, it takes real leadership to convince (or force) large organizations with lots of inertia to do things the hard way.

We want to believe technology can give us methods of lie detection. Perhaps it will one day. Until then, we will have to "suck it up" and put in the time, effort and money necessary to do thorough forensic and/or background investigations.

Skeptic

Posted by: Seeker Posted on: Oct 20^th, 2002 at 10:09pm	Mark & Quote Quote
Once again the American population is duped into believing that there is an existance of a magical mysitcal thing called a lie detector! How desperately we seek to find quick fixes at the price of innocents. Shame on us.

Posted by: Fair Chance Posted on: Oct 14^th, 2002 at 4:25pm	Mark & Quote Quote
Based on polygraph "science", a ten minute screening interview is almost as good (or as bad) as a four hour interview. Five minutes or five days of questioning does not increase the probability of more accurate results. As long as he does not confess to anything, the polygraph is useless.

Posted by: micheal_dovini Posted on: Oct 14^th, 2002 at 6:11am	Mark & Quote Quote
I saw that show as well. All I could think was, " my poly took 4 hours" this guy can tell immediately after asking each question once whether or not they are lying. This just goes to show that most people who have not taken a polygraph don't know anything about them. Its just good T.V. programming.

Posted by: Observer1 Posted on: Aug 13^th, 2002 at 8:10pm	Mark & Quote Quote
Hollywoodized, Duh! But as a dad, Wow! What a concept...

Posted by: PROAc Posted on: Aug 13^th, 2002 at 5:37am	Mark & Quote Quote
There is a new series on NBC. Twice a week or so, three guys will try to win a girl to Hawaii but first they have to passed her parents' test. The last segment featured a polygraph tests where the dad will asked 10+ questions without any pre-polygraph procedures. The polygrapher just give a thumb up or down. The polygrapher looked like the guy who is the announcer on WWF.

Question:

Options:	Text	Color	Split Pie
Option 1:
Option 2:
Option 3:
Option 4:
Option 5:
Option 6:
Option 7:
Option 8:

Automatic End in:	days and minutes. Leave it blank if you don't want to set it now.
Enable Guest Voting:	Check this if you want guests to be able to vote in this poll.
Hide results:	Check this if you do not want the results of this poll shown until voting has been closed.
Multiple Choice	Check this if you want to allow users to vote for more than one option.
Time limit for deleting vote:	Time in minutes users are allowed to delete their vote (0 to disable delete).
Use legends for Pie Chart	Check this to use legends instead of labels next to each pie slice.
Pie Chart Radius:	Must be a value between 100 and 200 (default 100)

Name:
E-mail:
Your Verification Code is:	Please type the characters that appear in the image. The characters must be typed in the same order, and they are case-sensitive.
Verification Code:
Preview