Lie Detectors Tell Lies The Unreliability of Polygraphs Used in Criminal Trials and Investigations

skin, and Kircher failed to correctly
             classify any subjects who were using countermeasures. (252)
             This statement shows that the tests are not only unreliable when given by experts, but they are not
             even correct half the time. The polygraph is not efficient enough to be correct during practice
             tests, and the polygraph is definitely not efficient enough to be used as evidence in trials or as a
             basis of guilt or innocence in criminal investigations.
             Polygraphs are not accepted by the expert psychophysiological scientific community as
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