News organizations would render a valuable service if, whenever they report that someone has taken or proposes to take a polygraph, they reminded readers that polygraphs are voodoo.
Journalists who report that Mike Pence has offered to take a polygraph, or that Ford has taken one, without explaining that polygraphs cannot discern truth from falsehood are wasting an opportunity to educate their readers.
A polygraph measures your heart rate, breathing, and galvanic skin response.
If the polygraph is administered by someone friendly, there will be no interrogation.
Appeal to the polygraph may help interrogators catch criminals, but it does so in a way that encourages magical thinking in the public.
Using polygraph results to make hiring decisions, or pretending that the polygraph is anything but an interrogation tool, is a terrible idea in government.
Reporters who discuss her polygraph results uncritically tell us exactly the same thing about themselves.
https://www.city-journal.org/truth-about-polygraph-tests-16180.html
Journalists who report that Mike Pence has offered to take a polygraph, or that Ford has taken one, without explaining that polygraphs cannot discern truth from falsehood are wasting an opportunity to educate their readers.
A polygraph measures your heart rate, breathing, and galvanic skin response.
If the polygraph is administered by someone friendly, there will be no interrogation.
Appeal to the polygraph may help interrogators catch criminals, but it does so in a way that encourages magical thinking in the public.
Using polygraph results to make hiring decisions, or pretending that the polygraph is anything but an interrogation tool, is a terrible idea in government.
Reporters who discuss her polygraph results uncritically tell us exactly the same thing about themselves.
https://www.city-journal.org/truth-about-polygraph-tests-16180.html
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