Rhyothemis<p>Maria Konnikova on polygraph testing / lie detectors:</p><p> “I will caveat this by saying that it’s impossible to tell when someone’s lying, and anyone who tells you that it is possible is full of shit,” Konnikova prefaced the interview. Here’s what else she said. What can blinking tell us? What is it about blinking that is so significant when it comes to trying to read people? The answer is: absolutely nothing. The bottom line, for people who have studied this for years and years, is that there is no such thing as a Pinocchio’s nose of lying. There is no way you can look at a person and be like, “This person is lying,” or “This person is not lying.” The person who develops that technology is going to be billionaire; this is why lie detector tests don’t work. What we can tell is if a person is experiencing cognitive load, which means they’re uncomfortable or there’s something going on in their mind that is overwhelming their processing capacity. There are signs of cognitive load, and those signs might mean that they’re lying — but they might mean something else, and there’s your problem."</p><p><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/why-doesnt-elizabeth-holmes-blink-theranos.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecut.com/2019/03/why-doesnt-</span><span class="invisible">elizabeth-holmes-blink-theranos.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/PolygraphTesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PolygraphTesting</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Polygraphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polygraphs</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/LieDetectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LieDetectors</span></a><br><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Lying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lying</span></a></p>