[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William J. Foristal) writes:
Professor Iacono knows more about this subject than you, me or anyone
else in this discussion group.
Common sense led many to believe that the claims that lie detector
results were accurate more than 90% of the time were absurd and probably
the result of rigged studies by people with a bias.
Therefore, your weak attempt to refute Professor Iacono's rebuttal does
not really do much for me. I'll leave it to others to form their own
opinions.
Bill
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 08:07:23 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
>Hi Jackie,
>
>Prof. Iacono claims that his survey and the Gallup survey had nearly
>identical results while Honts' survey was significantly different,
>probably
>because of a poor response. Yet the Gallup survey found confidence in
>polygraph results among the best-informed respondents. But Iacono
>claims to
>have found the exact reverse: results "were not significantly
>different
>from those of less
>well informed respondents for almost all of the questions, including
>the one
>about which of the 4 statements 'best describes your own opinion of
>polygraph test interpretations' that was asked on all three surveys."
>
>Prof. Iacono did not say the Gallup survey misrepresented the findings
>or
>that Honts misrepresented the Gallup survey. It appears Prof. Honts
>would
>have found that OJ passed his polygraph.
>
>I find it strange that Prof. Iacono lays down conditions for sharing
>his
>research data that includes requiring that Honts go through a
>committee at
>the university. Was he afraid his data would be stolen? Since he had
>the
>original it could not be misrepresented for long.
>
>No one can argue that leaving Honts off his survey would have an
>appreciable
>effect on the accuracy of the survey but that is the only statement
>that
>Prof. Iacono makes that is not very questionable.
>
>>Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>
>>Hi all
>>
>>I promise to let you know what Iacono replied if he did. Here it is
>verbatim, I
>>copied it and insert his reply. (Aren't you proud of me Kathy).
>Happy
>>reading!!
>>
>>jackief
>>
>>
>>
>>William G. Iacono wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for sending me the info on Honts criticisms of our work. The
>>> criticisms are without merit and hardly deserve acknowledgement,
>and I don't
>>> have time to point out why all of them are off base. But consider
>the
>>> following...
>>>
>>> In the published account of the survey (Journal of Applied
>Psychology,
>>> 1997), we point out that because the survey was prepared for a book
>chapter
>>> that Raskin, Honts and Kircher as well as Iacono and Lykken were
>>> contributing to, we eliminated ourselves as well as them from the
>survey
>>> pool (presumably our opinions were well represented in our
>contributions to
>>> this book). Since there were almost 200 hundred respondents to the
>survey,
>>> it is not possible for the elimination of ourselves or them to have
>had any
>>> significant effect on the outcome.
>>>
>>> Second, we agreed to share the data with Honts and Amato provided
>certain
>>> conditions were met, such as there having their request reviewed by
>their
>>> university IRB (the Board that approves research with humans as
>meeting
>>> ethical standards). Apparently they didn't like the conditions.
>>>
>>> Third, when we examined the results of our survey for just well
>informed
>>> respondents, the results were not significantly different from
>those of less
>>> well informed respondents for almost all of the questions,
>including the one
>>> about which of the 4 statements "best describes your own opinion of
>>> polygraph test interpretations" that was asked on all three
>surveys. In the
>>> Gallup survey, comparing more informed to less informed respondents
>also
>>> produced no significant differences as a result of how informed
>respondents
>>> were. Only the Amato and Honts survey, to which only a third of
>those polled
>>> responded, found a difference between more and less informed
>respondents.
>>> This response anomaly is most likely due to their having a sample
>that is
>>> not comparable to those in the other two surveys because it is not
>>> representative.
>>>
>>> I hope this information is useful to you.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>In the sociology room the children learn
>>that even dreams are colored by your perspective
>>
>>I toss and turn all night. Theresa Burns, "The Sociology Room"
>>
>>
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>Best, Terry
>
>"Lawyer - one trained to circumvent the law" - The Devil's Dictionary
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