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The clue is in the question. If they were accurate, they would be used in every single criminal case.

If I remember.correctly, it was because his momentum had already been shot. Had he won by 50 points, im sure it would have been covered differently.

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Absolutely, but let's not ignore that large part of criminal investigation is 'gut feel' and instinct, and both the polygraph and body language are useful for what they are useful for, but neither is valuable as incriminating evidence. There have been plenty of people who acted guilty as sin but were completely innocent, and plenty of psychopaths who seemed completely innocent until a compelling piece of evidence blew the investigation open.

They are equivocally, with no shred of a doubt

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accurate.

Not only that, they can easily be fooled. Like, stupidly easily.

They need to measure a "baseline" to get your "at rest" heartrate, breathing, body temperature, etc. Just hold your breath for a bit, this can fool the baseline.

Fun fact:

William Moulton Marston invented the polygraph test.

He and his wife created Wonder Woman.

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You would if you're sitting in a police station with detectives saying they think you did it and you will go down for 20 years.

That scenario wouldn't make you nervous?

Do you know who it wouldn't make nervous? A sociopath with zero feelings.

I don't like the machine that thinks stress == guilt.

See my other comments in this thread for why they don't.

Except that it doesnt work like that. What if you're nervous not about the questions relating to a crime, but simply the fact that you're jammed in a small, bright room with cops who accusing you of a crime? Or what if you're nervous that they might get a bad reading and think you're lying when you're telling the truth? What if you clench your anus at the wrong moment? I guarantee you an innocent person is going to be plenty nervous and stressed going into a polygraph, and that's exactly what the polygraph is trying to measure.

I'd add to this that people don't always get a share of the profits, known as dividends, only certain companies pay out dividends.

And also the price is partly affected by things like the estimated value of a company both now and down the line in a few years. Things like good news of expansion or new products will help the price while bad news like recession or increased fuel prices will reduce the price.

For example during covid most companies went down in price because they weren't allowed to open, while PPE companies increased because of both being allowed to operate and increase in demand.

They aren't even slightly accurate let alone highly, the only use they have is an interrogation tool for suspects who don't know how useless they are.

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>by body language

Which is also highly inaccurate

Just gonna write all this down, thanks

Polygraphs as "lie detectors" are not accurate at all. They don't measure truthfulness in any way, only physiology. And while the two might be very loosely related, it's a logical fallacy. Correlation does not equal causation.

Company ask 4 money, people give money in hopes they get more money, if company is good with the money they gave them, they could get 90% or 110% back in a day or 700% back in 60 years.

It's called a polygraph, not a lie-detector test.

Scientifically they are highly inaccurate.

The test and the results can be affected by a number of factors.

Short answer: they're not accurate, can be easily fooled, and are basically inadmissible because they have a very weak scientific foundation

What they ARE good for, is manipulation. You swear up and down you didn't kill your wife. Detective asks, 'would you take a polygraph?' And you start sweating bullets. You complete the polygraph, and the polygrapher comes in and tells you 'I know you lied to me.' And maybe they do, or are at least suspicous because of your body language or evidence that contradicts you. But in that moment, under that pressure, people crack.. The cop may have absolutely nothing, and is just fondling in the dark. 'I know you lied on some of these questions.' Next thing you're confessing to a triple homicide that you may never have been caught for.

Edit: body language isn't necrssarily evidence, corrected the phrasing there.

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Would you not be nervous about failing? Have you never done anything wrong? All people have, maybe not the same wrong the police is asking about.

Lie detectors are pseudoscience and have no place in a justice system.

Yes because the justice system has famously never done something like coerce a confession, or falsely sentence someone.

No need at all for an innocent person to be nervous in a police interview.

Yeah, that's highly unlikely.. Who wouldn't be nervous when interrogated by the police, even if you did nothing wrong? And than on the other hand there are sociopaths and psychopaths who are absolutely calm even if they murdered anyone. What would you do with them? Don't convict them because of the test?