"‘red’ means you're lying"

[ensho]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23926278/


New anti-terror weapon: Hand-held lie detector
U.S. troops in Afghanistan first to get new device; ‘red’ means you're lying


The Pentagon will issue hand-held lie detectors this month to U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan, pushing to the battlefront a century-old debate over the accuracy of the polygraph.

The Defense Department says the portable device isn't perfect, but is accurate enough to save American lives by screening local police officers, interpreters and allied forces for access to U.S. military bases, and by helping narrow the list of suspects after a roadside bombing. The device has already been tried in Iraq and is expected to be deployed there as well. “We're not promising perfection — we've been very careful in that,” said Donald Krapohl, special assistant to the director at the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment, the midwife for the new device. “What we are promising is that, if it's properly used, it will improve over what they are currently doing.”

But the lead author of a national study of the polygraph says that American military men and women will be put at risk by an untested technology. "I don't understand how anybody could think that this is ready for deployment," said statistics professor Stephen E. Fienberg, who headed a 2003 study by the National Academy of Sciences that found insufficient scientific evidence to support using polygraphs for national security. "Sending these instruments into the field in Iraq and Afghanistan without serious scientific assessment, and for use by untrained personnel, is a mockery of what we advocated in our report."
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that's what neo cons do, mock. they are good at mockery.

if its red your dead

if its blue you might be dead too

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[Vilis Veritas]

1. Ever notice how the names of these officials

is indicative of the assertion being made?

Donald Krapohl

Sounds like Crap-ola to me...

Director of the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment, Mr. Krapohl...

[ensho]

2. yes and the writer called him the 'midwife' for the devices

why dirty up midwife. that's like changing the subject.

[Orsino]

3. There is no science supporting the polygraph.

Might as well equip the troops with e-meters, if your goal is simply to ensure that a certain number of detainees register as bad guys.

While we're at it, let's have traffic cops issue speeding tickets to every third motorist, and do away with the expensive radar detectors.

[TCJ70]

4. Yeah, there's no chance of error in THIS one! n/t

[ensho]

5. which neo con makes the money off this hand-held deal? I wonder.

nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. I thought this referred to Republicans

You know, red states--and I was agreeing that if the politician is red (ie GOP), they are indeed lying.

[windoe]

7. So many differences between cultures

intonations, gestures on top of language, combined with the stress of being at war---I would be interested to see how this device can possibly work on the street.

[razors edge]

8. pics...

old device it replaces.







new and improved version.

[librechik]

9. lavender means "I think you're hot," orange means " having a boring day"

these are different from 60s era mood rings how?


only half kidding...

[alfredo]

10. Hold one in front of bush and his junta.