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Re:Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted by rndgermandude on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:32PM (#20557102)
Ye, well, e.g. Ted Bundy passed a polygraph. And the Green River Killer did too. But hey, another dude, innocent of course, did not pass the lie detector when they were looking for the Green River Killer. Oops
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Re:Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted by blaser-waffle on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:08PM (#20557503)
ALdrich Ames passed a couple of polygraphs.

They only got him because other sources implicated him, and because his finances were notably out of whack for a government employee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames

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Re:Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted by giles_corey on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:26AM (#20562134)
To the best of my knowledge, Ted Bundy was never polygraphed. You are correct about the Green River Killer (Gary Leon Ridgway) and the innocent man (Melvin Foster):

https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1067927...

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Re:Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted by jandrese on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:12PM (#20557565)
I've heard that they're not very useful with true sociopaths because they require you to be uncomfortable with lying.
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Re:Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted by cblades on Monday July 29, 2019 @04:28PM (#20559052)
Even then, unless they are coupled with a comprehensive psychological evaluation that could identify sociopathy, they could not be considered a useful tool (generously assuming that they have any truth-discerning usefulness to begin with).
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