wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2002 at 4:33pm:

Secondly, on the subject of peer review, when a person submits a paper to (for example) The Journel of the American Psychological Association, it is "peer reviewed" by three members of that esteemed field of scientific endevour.  This is appropriate, since only experts in that field should judge the quality of any submission.

You mean like this one?

Psychologists Surveyed On Lie Detectors Say Most Are Not Valid...Not Scientifically Sound and Can Be Easily Deceived. 'The Validity of the Lie Detector: Two Surveys of Scientific Opinion,' by W.G. Iacono, Ph.D., and D.T. Lykken, Ph.D.,University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol.82, No. 3.

The press release can be read by clicking the above hyperlink or here

Take note the R/I test is not even considered worthy of inclusion in the survey.


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Yet, if three graduate degree holding members of the American Polygraph Association were to "peer review" a paper submitted for publication in its journel, and they were to accept that paper, that work would be immediately dismissed by the people who post to this site... Am I wrong in this assumption?

Graduate degrees in what field? The 'journel' of the American Polygraph Association is not considered a peer-reviewed journal.