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Re: lie detecting

1996-04-11 13:48:00
On Wed, 10 Apr 1996 hallam(_at_)w3(_dot_)org wrote:

Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 22:25:57 -0400
From: hallam(_at_)w3(_dot_)org
To: Peter Williams <peter(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com>
Cc: hallam(_at_)w3(_dot_)org, pem-dev(_at_)TIS(_dot_)COM
Subject: Re: lie detecting 


Oh come off it, the polygraph test works more or less on the placebo
effect. The evidence for this being a certain Mr Ames.

From experience, I can assure you that polygraphs can determine, with some
accuracy, what you are nervous about.  The correlation, if any, between that
and "truth" is left as an exercise for the reader. 

...

      Phill

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