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The new voice stress lie detectors (“Voice Risk Analysis,” or VRA) don’t actually seem to do any better than chance in detecting lies — but they do deter folks who are afraid of them<\/a> (i.e., who don’t know the above) from trying to fool them, which, for the moment, more than pays for their acquisition and use. <\/p>\n

Nevertheless, when American law-enforcement agencies ask Dr Sommers if they should invest in VRA<\/span>, he tells them he will build them a device \u201cthat lights up and has all kinds of bells and whistles\u201d, for half the price. He is not saying that any agency has actually sunk that low, but it raises a tricky moral question: is it all right to detect a liar with a lie?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new voice stress lie detectors (“Voice Risk Analysis,” or VRA) don’t actually seem to do any better than chance in detecting lies — but they do deter folks who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11820,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/28\/all_your_air_contaminatio.html","url_meta":{"origin":12375,"position":0},"title":"All your air contamination detectors are belong to us!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Jan-08 10:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"At least that's the case in New York City where the cops are afraid that people buying radiation detectors, chemical detectors, etc., are going to (some day) flood the police...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11656,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/25\/fire_4.html","url_meta":{"origin":12375,"position":1},"title":"Fire!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jul-07 6:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting news video (being passed around inside the company) about kids and smoke detector alarms.\u00a0 Bottom line -- often kids don't notice the alarm going off and sleep right through...","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13302,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/one_ringy_dingy_5.html","url_meta":{"origin":12375,"position":2},"title":"One ringy-dingy","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Jan-09 1:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've had a problem for the last week with my Blackberry (Curve) simply ... not answering calls. 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