PSYO 3224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sphygmomanometer, Cesare Lombroso, Polygraph
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If you call everyone a liar, then you would catch all the liars. He was a feminist and felt there should be more comic book characters of strong woman that young boys should read about: he was the north american definition of a polygrapher. Insurance companies were using it on everything: employee testing. In canada you can do employee testing but you (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t in the usa since it was abused: the number one use of polygraphs until the late 80s was employee testing. It was made illegal in 1998 in the usa: screening, government agencies still do use it and so do the police. Polygraphs: relevant/irrelevant test, cqt, comparison question test, mostly in canada and north america and western europe. Irrelevant do you understand that i will only be asking questions we have discussed before. Irrelevant is your first name john: comparison prior to 2009, did you ever verbally threaten to hurt anyone.