Fear of testifying under oath?
Why? She supposedly passed a lie detector test!
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Experts doubt claim of ‘truthful’ polygraph result from Kavanaugh accuser
by
Eddie Scarry
| September 17, 2018 04:31 PM
sexually assaulted her decades ago state that she took a polygraph test that deemed her to be “truthful.”
But experts interviewed by the
Washington Examiner doubt the significance of that finding, and assert that such tests are unable to assess at all whether a person is lying or is truthful.
Thomas Mauriello, a former senior polygraph examiner who worked at the Defense Department for 30 years, said in an interview Monday that polygraph tests merely detect when a subject is experiencing a physiological reaction — like perspiration or an increased heart rate — to one or more questions.
The tests don’t, he said, determine whether a person is lying or attempting to deceive. Instead, the results have to be interpreted by the person administering the test.
“The polygraph is not a lie detector,” said Mauriello, who now works as a part-time professor at the University of Maryland’s criminology and criminal justice department. “Let’s make that clear. There is no such thing as a lie detector. It’s simply an investigative tool that will record physiological reactions when you’re asked a question and give a response.”
