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Topic	So why do police conduct polygraph tests if they're inadmissible in court?
xGhostchantx 10/31/22 11:30:59 PM #8:	Because controlled studies have found that they're slightly better than chance in exposing a lie. But 'slightly better' isn't good enough to be used in court; in a string of good luck, you or I could guess slightly better than chance. Its just a prompt for further enquiry. They're usually just yes/no questions, which makes it easier to trap people in lies, or at least questions that they can't answer in a satisfactory way. --- You haven't set a signature for the message boards yet <cite>xGhostchantx posted [p:969110406] in So why do ... [t:80217326]...</cite> <quote>Because controlled studies have found that they're slightly better than chance in exposing a lie. But 'slightly better' isn't good enough to be used in court; in a string of good luck, you or I could guess slightly better than chance. Its just a prompt for further enquiry. They're usually just yes/no questions, which makes it easier to trap people in lies, or at least questions that they can't answer in a satisfactory way. --- You haven't set a signature for the message boards yet</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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