Skeptoid #422: Lie Detection

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

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🗓️ 8 July 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Polygraphs are no better than a roll of the dice at determining whether you're lying.

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0:00.0	For as long as there's been conversation, people have longed for a reliable way to tell
0:08.6	when someone is lying.
0:10.6	Today we're going to look critically at the polygraph machine and all the complex ways
0:15.2	it interacts with society and also some newer technologies.
0:20.1	Also, spoiler alert, it turns out that polygraphs being inadmissible in court is really just
0:25.5	an urban legend.
0:27.5	The polyd detection is today on Skeptoid.
0:35.7	You're listening to Skeptoid.
0:37.2	I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.
0:40.7	Lie detection.
0:41.7	Scotty, lie to me.
0:43.7	How old are you?
0:45.7	22, sir.
0:46.7	Inactors.
0:47.7	Inactors.
0:48.7	Data.
0:49.7	In terror.
0:50.7	A lot of people, like police officers and gamblers, think they can tell when they're
0:57.4	in a person is lying.
0:59.3	But what we've always longed for is hard data, testable, mechanical proof that a subject
1:04.6	is telling the truth or lying.
1:07.5	For a long time, the standard has been the polygraph machine.
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