kenuchelover Wrote:
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> Having said that..... I'd say that guilty people
> are, on average, far LESS likely to agree to take
> a polygraph than innocent people are.
Pure speculation.
> And.... funny thing, but there are actually
> ALTERNATIVES to the polygraph, that have a better
> success rate.
Absolute nonsense! This is junk science at its finest. How does one demonstrate that "better success rate"? What is the independent measure of truth? Truth is subjective....
One I recall involves an actual
> brain scan, another monitors the eye (movement
> & dilation), uh, I think both work on a
> RECOGNITION principle rather than "veracity" per
> se, and as such are more prone to accuracy
> (example: showing the accused something he
> KNOWS..... like a photo of the crime scene, or a
> piece of physical evidence..... will result in a
> different physiological reaction than will showing
> the accused something he's NOT familiar with, like
> a photo of a DIFFERENT crime scene, or an object
> NOT connected to the crime).
So a fancier, more mysterious way of measuring some sort of autonomic arousal equates in your mind to the ability to tell a truth-teller from a liar? Why not try reading animal entrails instead? The gods don't lie.
> The concept of the 5th amendment as a privacy
> right, of people having the right to HIDE
> EVIDENCE, to not testify at all or to keep their
> garbage untouched & their body inviolate from
> testing (DNA, polygraphy, blood, etc) was NOT
> intended..... and is actually outdated in an era
> of BENIGN veracity testing.
You're a little confused here... The fifth amendment [
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com] protects against self-incrimination; the fourth [
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com] is what protects people from unreasonable search and seizure. There is no legal right to privacy as such.
AFAIK, sadly, there is not yet any constitutional amendment to protect us from junk science.
> The Polygraph IS accurate enough to often prove
> useful.... so long as you ask the right questions.
Accurate enough? Wow...tell that to all the innocent people sitting in prisons and to all those who have been victimized by the guilty people who got off and were free to continue to commit crimes...