On 23 April 2006 Chris Green wrote [snip]:
Why is it that scientists, over the course of the 19th century, moved
away
from the requirement of certainty (a relic of their early battles with
the Church) and gradually began, first, to accept probabilistic evidence
and, later, became full-blown
There is a curious article in this morning's New York Times
on the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) use of
polygraph in maintaining internal security (the firing of a
CIA officer last week apparently is a result of this program).
Though the article is brief and omits details of interest
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Subject: RE: [tips] Re: OCD and blacks
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:57:20 -0400
In response to my querying Michael Sylvester's impressionistic
contention
that there is little OCD in blacks Michael responded (22
Out of sight,out of mind and Absence makes the heart grow fonder
are often quoted as two contradictory ideas that depict problems with
so called common sense.But my own examination reveal that they are
not contradictory as they appear.
It is possible to have both. One pertains to the visual
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Subject: RE: [tips] Has Polygraph Testing Suddenly Become Valid?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:59:22 -0400
There is a curious article in this morning's New York Times
on the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA)
I have taught both undergraduate Abnormal Psychology and graduate-level
Psychopathology for years. My understanding is that there is no
significant difference in the ethnic distribution of OCD (check DSM as
well as other texts in the field). Moreover, a brief search on PSYCInfo
indicated a
Hi Mike -
L. Farwell has successfully marketed P300 event-related potentials as an
indicator of deception in the criminal justice arena:
TIME Magazine has named Dr. Lawrence Farwell to
the TIME 100: The Next Wave, the 100 Innovators who may be "the Picassos or
Einsteins of the 21st
Now look folks, you keep taking the bait; as several tipsters have
suggested in tehe past we can just ignore these, stop responding,
thereby reinforcing their postings and the poster will eventually
extinguished from posting inane commentary? No amount of logical or
reasoned responses do
Sandra Nagle said:
"Yes. . . it is final's week, and I
will do almostanything to avoid the last stack of papers!
=)"
Sandra- I had a huge P300 when I realized
you are finishing and we have 5 weeks left!! So, strange as it sounds, I'm
extremely jealous - to be grading finals would be
Mike Palij said:
Has there been some breakthrough in theory and/or practice
of polygraph testing that has increased its scientific validity since
the publication of the above article?
Or should one use this for a teaching moment to remind students
to be skeptical of results from scientifically
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:38:36 -0700, SMNagel29 wrote:
Hi Mike -
Hi there!
L. Farwell has successfully marketed P300 event-related potentials
as an indicator of deception in the criminal justice arena:
TIME Magazine has named Dr. Lawrence Farwell to the TIME 100:
The Next Wave, the 100 Innovators
Thanks to Tim for helping me see the glass as half full and to Mike for the much needed comic relief. What would I do without the support of TIPS? Perhaps, tipping that half glass. =)
In a message dated 4/24/2006 12:45:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006
I'm not the expert on the current validity of the polygraph, though I do use
some old data for teaching purposes:
An old American Psych article (Kleinmunta Szucko, 1984) has the polygtaph
correctly identifying a (known) guilty person 76% of the time, and
incorrectly labeling an innocent person
I did a quick-and-dirty computation of d' using the hit and false-alarm
rates given here, and I get d' = 1.04.
That seems big enough to think there's something real, but not big
enough that I'd want to bet my job (or a stint in the slammer) on it.
m
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