Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 1:14 PM
Edited Thursday, November 11, 2004 at 1:15 PM At this point, Adam's rant is a bit irrelevant. He's technically right, that if we did have an infallible lie detector test, we could get rid of juries. But, that's far off from reality now. Sure, we could invest a shitload of money in developing a lie detector test, but I think that's much farther off than people realize.
Lie detector tests have come a long ways since their origins, but it has a lot more to do with the training involved in the person who conducts the tests, as well as what sort of questions are asked, and understanding what certain signs mean. Without an expert conducting the lie detector test, the results become more or less worthless. The problem is human now, and it would take a new design from the ground up to eliminate or minimize that human element. So, maybe far far off in the future, but I just get the feeling Adam thinks were a lot closer to that point than we are technologically. —piesore |
