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"Can't anybody here play this game?", to quote Casey Stengel in a different context. Security services worldwide and retail stores with cash register shortages all use polygraph examination as a quick sorter of sheep from goats. Someone, quick, tell Hamid Karzai. (we promise never to put HIM on "the box"...)
Comments
by jollyroger on Wed, 02/27/2013 - 2:49pm
From the article, my bold:
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 12:38am
For reasons which will remain cloaked, I am in a position to vouch for the accuracy of polygraphs conducted by competent examiners, who are relatively plentiful.
Beyond the admittedly somewhat elaborate equipment attendant upon the full box experience, there exist at present a variety of voice-stress analyzers (you can put on on your smartphone) that do a creditable job of at least screening out the floridly deceptive.
It's time for the 21st century to arrive in af-pak, at least in this minor facet.
by jollyroger on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 1:06am
Maybe if I pare down the quote you will get what I was getting at:
Consulting village elders is one system and lie detectors is another system, and you are no doubt correct that the latter works much better than the former. But they don't need no fucking system of any kind because it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. Spend money on lie detectors and they would no doubt still accept the iffy ones. (Not to mention that some of the iffy ones would no doubt be the wily ones with more talent to execute their goals. Conversely, one could be strict and reward acceptance of only the truest simplest honest dullards, and have a smaller force of true, simple honest dullards, ill-equipped to deal with policing problems in a nation with an insurgency.)
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 4:12pm
by jollyroger on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 6:57pm