The truth about lie detectors ...

[geetrue]

The truth about lie detectors ...

I seriously thought this was a joke at first:

This is a story about the white house administering a lie detector test to the Clinton administration's security advisor Sandy Berger to see if they can blame some white house missing papers on Clinton's administration.

This is a sleeper story that will break new ground for future cases.

http://www.livescience.com/health/070522_bad_lies.html

Have ya'll ever taken a lie detector test?

I have ... I was scared too, but I told the truth.

We had a teenager working with us (a long time ago) that would tell some real whopper lies. He would volunteer information about his father being a race car driver and stuff like that. We all knew he was lying, right? The boss even talked about it and said, "Wait till he has to take his quarterly polygraph test.

Well his turn came and went and nothing happened to him. They didn't fire him or nothing that is, but somehow it got explained to us other workers that a real liar can go so far as to believe his own lies and therefore pass a polygraph test.

Strange, but true ... :yep:

[Letum]

A polygraph test at work?

[baggygreen]

navy requirement maybe?

[jumpy]

^^

Q: "Do you like your job?"
A: "Yes" beeeeeeep!

Q: "Do you feel you are challenged and satisfied with your environment at work?"
A: "Yes" beeeeeeeep!

Q "Do you get on well with your colleagues in a friendly and supportive atmosphere?"
A "Yes, for the most part" beeeeeeeep!

Q: "How do you feel about your long term prospects with the company and future career within it?"
A: "Very positive and optimistic" beeeeeeeep!

:rotfl:
Somehow I think that reflects quite accurately how such a test would transpire at my work...

Obviously I'm poking fun here, but on a more serious note I'd hope that whatever job you are doing that requires a quarterly polygraph test is not just some bs sit in an office and take home a pay cheque at the end of the month deal. Like employee drug testing; I'd flat out refuse to participate, even if it meant loosing my job- what I do at home is my business and so long as I have the discipline to keep work and my life (which is far more important to me than making like a battery for my boss' pension fund) separate, then work can go and stuff themselves :yep:

[baggygreen]

i've 4 different places of 'employment' tho not all fall under the category of work..


one of them i sell drugs

one of them i get tested

one of them i dont get tested, which is strange cos the players do..

and one of them couldnt care less!

[Jimbuna]

It should be obligatory for everyone (politicians) at Westminster :lol:

[Oberon]

It should be obligatory for everyone (politicians) at Westminster :lol:

It'd empty out the House of Lords and the House of Commons pretty quick! :lol:

[Jimbuna]

It should be obligatory for everyone (politicians) at Westminster :lol:

It'd empty out the House of Lords and the House of Commons pretty quick! :lol:

But think of the money we'd have to spend on the needy :lol:

[SUBMAN1]

I always knew lie detector tests were inaccurate, but I never knew they were this bad:

Just how bad?

The Academy researchers even provided a pertinent example for the Feds. Given the modern polygraph's strengths, the machine could uncover 8 out of 10 spies working at, say, a national atomic laboratory with 10,000 hypothetical employees. Sounds good, but the detection comes at the price of finding 1,600 innocent employees guilty of spying. While about 8,400 good employees would pass the test, 1,600 careers would be ruined.

[Heibges]

And Adlrich Ames passed many polygraph tests, as he destroyed our intelligence operations in the Soviet Union.