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Evaluating Polygraph Data
The objective of automated scoring algorithms for polygraph data is to create reliable and statistically valid classification schemes minimizing both false positive and false negative rates. With increasing computing power and well developed statistical methods for modeling and classification we often launch analyses without much consideration for the quality of the datasets and the underlying ...
متن کاملMiss Jean Mackenzie
iV whom the duties of Statutory Supervision under the Mental ^enciency Acts were being carried on for the London County Council, and this work gave her an intimate knowledge of the needs of mentally handicapped children and the value of Occupation Centres. In 1932 she came to the Central Association for Mental Welfare to fill the post of Case Secretary. Later she became Education Secretary when...
متن کاملThe polygraph and forensic psychiatry.
The Blue Fairy in Pinocchio stated confidently, “Lies can be easily recognized. There are two kinds of them: those with short legs, and those with long noses” (Ref. 1, p 89). While perhaps true for her, the Blue Fairy was wrong when it comes to humans, who are in general poor lie detectors. In experimental settings, the ability of the average person to catch a liar is typically little more than...
متن کاملOn "The Matching Polynomial of a Polygraph"
In this note we give an explanation for two phenomena mentioned in the concluding remarks of " The matching polynomial of a polygraph " by Babic et al. The following results are obtained: (1) Although three matrices for given polygraphs defined in the above article in general have different orders, they determine the same recurrence relations for the matching polynomial of these polygraphs. (2)...
متن کاملSir James Mackenzie
Based on a Dissertation read before the Royal Medical Society on Friday, 21st October 1960 Picture, if you can. a dark grim valley of smoke and chimneys, outlined by a ring of light appearing over the hills. In the streets a clatter of horses' hooves and wooden clogs. In a dingy room the oft repeated scene of a girl in labour surrounded by old women in shawls. The ubiquitous, anxious husband is...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1916
ISSN: 0002-9955
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1916.25810510002010a