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Lie detectors are nonsense. It's dangerous to promote their use. The US is the only Western country where it's routinely used.
by roel_v 11y ago
Lie detectors are nonsense. It's dangerous to promote their use. The US is the only Western country where it's routinely used.
- minthd 11y agoWhile regular polygraphs are not reliable, I think usage for P300(i.e. brain fingerprinting) is more reliable, and even used in some courts. for some numbers ,see[1]- "With both P300 and P300-MERMER, error rate was 0 %: determinations were 100 % accurate, no false negatives or false positives; also no indeterminates. Countermeasures had no effect. Median statistical confidence for determinations was 99.9 % with P300-MERMER and 99.6 % with P300" So maybe this could be a good starting point for something useful for trafficking prevention ? [1]http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11571-012-9230-0 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11571-012-9230-0