LIE DETECTORS MAYBE CRITICISED – BUT NEW EQUIPMENT KEEPS BEING DEVELOPED
May 20th, 2024
Despite lie detecting machines being used for more than 100 years, and widely disparaged by many fraud investigators, recent technologies being touted as enabling users to uncover falsehood continue to be developed.
The polygraph was first tested in court in a Washington DC case in 1925. Back then, the court stated the lie detector test was not appropriate until it had been “sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs” (1).
Given that the efficacy and science behind polygraphs has remained highly ...
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