Word: lying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inside the Lie Box" [Nov. 4], because it cautions against the truth or guilt robot, must be welcomed by those familiar not only with the machine but also with the feelings of human beings exposed...
...departmental committee that studied the various proposals this Fall rejected devices for paring down the honors program and advanced the junior-generals idea on its own. Even though Donald H. Fleming, chairman of the Department, has said the exam will help determine who gets into honors, lie doubts that junior-generals will reduce the number of thesis writers. In effect, the junior faculty tried to cut down the number of honors candidates, and the senior faculty refused to go along...
Conceding that "this sort of thing is embarrassing," Fort Worth's top police announced a new policy: lie-detector tests for any suspect who requests one. Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr suggested that the same policy may be advisable throughout the state. Amid all the good intentions, though, no one paid much heed to the hazards, notably the possibility of testing error and the fact that from now on, police may well assume the guilt of suspects who refuse the tests...
...Error. In a country that is short on police and long on curbs against interrogation, better scientific crime detection seems an absolute necessity-all of which encourages makers of polygraphs, which cost anywhere from $675 to $2,650. Polygraph theorists maintain that lying causes physical reactions detectable by a trained polygrapher. While he asks questions, ranging from the pertinent to the impertinent, the gadget graphically records the subject's pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and perspiration flow. The obvious weakness is not the machine but the man who interprets it. One study found that a good polygrapher is wrong three...
Complete Misnomer. As a result of such congressional blasts, the polygraph-happy Defense Department now reminds subjects of their Fifth Amendment right to silence and requires their written consent before using the lie box. In private industry, labor arbitrators usually bar firing when evidence of wrongdoing is based solely on lie-detector tests or refusal to take them. New laws also forbid the tests as a condition of employment in six states (Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington). J. Edgar Hoover calls the name lie detector "a complete misnomer" because the gaugers are totally incapable of "absolute judgments...