(September 22, 2018 at 8:55 am)alpha male Wrote:(September 22, 2018 at 7:52 am)Jehanne Wrote: If he's innocent, what does he have to fear from a FBI lie detector test?
They generate a lot of false positives:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/...ctors-work
Quote:Interestingly, the polygraph is quite good at identifying liars but does no better than chance at detecting honest people according to Lykken. In other words, there is a 50:50 chance that a polygraph test will say an honest person is lying (a 50 percent “false positive” rate).
They detect autonomic changes in the body which tend to indicate anxiety, and then those results need to be interpreted. And if they do a lie detector test (which if the do, the accuser should do one also) I have the feeling that those against kavenaugh will just move the goal posts again.
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