Some Avoidable Lie-Detector Mistakes

Some Avoidable Lie-Detector Mistakes

A lie-detector experiment.

Some Mistakes in Thinking about Affirmative Action*

Once I was a member of a university council that, among other things, played "watchdog" when decisions were being made regarding whom to appoint to high places in the univeristy administration. One of my colleague's favorite points was that if a candidate hedged with a "yes and no" or a "yes, but..." to the query, "Would you support affirmative action?", such a response should be taken as prima...

Some properties of nilpotent Lie algebras

In this article, using the definitions of central series and nilpotency in the Lie algebras, we give some results similar to the works of Hulse and Lennox in 1976 and Hekster in 1986. Finally we will prove that every non trivial ideal of a nilpotent Lie algebra nontrivially intersects with the centre of Lie algebra, which is similar to Philip Hall's result in the group theory.

The psychopath and the lie detector.

Hie article by Raddn and Hare (15^8) asserts or very irfainly implies that: 1) tlw control questicMi lie test is extraordinarily iKrcurate; 2) that this high accuriMry can be achieved by ob,^cti¥e scoring of the polygraph charts; 3) that the theory of diis test is psycAfriogically reasonaUe and was amfirmed by the experiment reported; 4) that subjects give qualitativdy dMTerent airtMMMnic respc...