SYSK Selects: How Lie Detectors Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Instead of actually detecting lies, polygraph machines sense physiological variations, ostensibly brought on by guilt. The results are subject to interpretation, and therefore controversial. Join Josh and Chuck as they investigate the polygraph.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.1	Hello there, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S. Case Selects, I've chosen our classic
0:36.4	episode on lie detectors.
0:39.2	It's a pretty nifty little episode about a pretty dodgy piece of forensic science with
0:44.6	a wow of a backstory.
0:47.0	It is classic stuff you should know, so I hope you enjoy.
0:53.4	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
1:03.0	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:04.6	I'm Josh Clark.
1:06.0	With me is always this Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:08.4	Lier.
1:11.0	You could tell.
1:12.0	There's ways you can find out Chuck.
1:14.1	Sure.
1:15.1	We'll get to that in a minute.
1:16.6	This is Stuff You Should Know.
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