Lie Detectors! (How Do They Work, How Accurate Are They, and Can They Be Beaten?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Detecting Lie Detection Techniques
Lying detection techniques were used in the ancient world before we got modern technology. The earliest form involves watching other people and trying to form an estimate of whether they are telling the truth or not. But these thods don't cover all the cases we encounter, so we've also developed more specialized lie detection strategies.
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Human beings have been telling lies since the dawn of history and finding ways to detect them has been a high priority. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the polygraph machine, how reliable it is, whether it can be beaten, historical methods of lie detection, and whether you should ever take a lie detector test.
