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Magnitar: Nobody on this site has conducted any research on polygraph and you take what they say at face value. What's the diff?
Freaked-out
Actually, someone has done a thorough scientific study of the validity of the polygraph. In early 2001, The National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council spent nearly one million dollars to research the veracity of the polygraph (BCSS-I-00-01-A). The proof is located on this site, here is the link:
Hmmm....I'd like to see this study and what academic journal this was published in and when. You should have told your professor you do not buy statements like that at face value...
Posted by: gelb disliker Posted on: Dec 26th, 2005 at 11:04am
i heard from a college proff. that there was a study done among 10 persons and they all where told to take a dollar off of the table sometime durring the day and he told 5 of them that they would take the test and pass and 5 the other half that they would fail and the ones who where told they woulld pass did and those who would fail didnt? is that valid