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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (14537)	9/10/2002 11:55:02 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93284

See Cheney's interview last night on Lehrer? No wonder he doesn't do interviews: his lying is becoming more obvious - the downward looks, avoiding questions, carefully-built stories that don't withstand examination. They are vulnerable to analysis by professionals, even by software "There exists software today capable of analyzing facial expressions for insincerity. -- University Science Computer Reads Facial Expressions Better Than Humans - By Suzanne Clancy [Contact: Suzanne Clancy] 22-Mar-1999; unisci.com Professional analysis of facial expressions and body language and movements can help the detection of lies. Inconsistencies in dialogue content also help give away liars. -- Some police see through killer's lies by Bruce Bower; Science News Online, March 3, 2001; 10% of liars can pass coventional lie detector tests. 20% of those telling the truth typically fail the tests. A more accurate way to judge the truth might be computer analysis of micro-expressions; involuntary facial expressions of a person's real emotions which flash across the face too fast for normal human perceptions to reliably catch. However, such technologies are still in the testing phase as of 1999. -- Liar, Liar, Face on Fire; DISCOVER Vol. 20 No. 7; July 1999; The Walt Disney Company Thermal imaging cameras appear capable of detecting some lies from changes in blood circulation around the eyes. -- Scientists: Liars betrayed by their faces; The Associated Press./CNN; URL: cnn.com -- New technology detects lying, paves way for increased security; 2-Jan-2002; Contact: Sara Bakken newsbureau@mayo.edu 507-284-5005 Mayo Clinic -- Thermal camera captures guilty faces by Will Knight; 02 January 02; New Scientist; cite of Nature (vol 415, p 35) The old conventional lie detection apparatus (polygraph) may be used to gather certain types of information, but is not itself necessarily an infallible detection device. -- Scientific American: In Focus: Truth or Consequences: October 1999 by Tim Beardsley -- The truth about the polygraph By Susan McCarthy; salon.com > Health & Body March 2, 2000; URL: salon.com -- To Tell the Truth. VitalSTATS March 2001 Another technology deemed roughly equivalent to the polygraph in accuracy (but which uses a somewhat different method to get its results) is voice stress analysis. -- Police increasingly using voice-based lie-detector; 02/11/2002; USA TODAY/The Associated Press -- "Telling the truth? Truster system can find you out" By Matthew Nelson InfoWorld Electric, 7-31-98 Note that the enormous cost and effort that would be required to integrate all the above techniques and possibly others into a single, extremely accurate lie detection system at any time in the near future could make it impractical and wasteful to use such a system on anyone in society but the very highest ranking and most influential shapers of business and government.