I know how much of... everything is just "go along with this, this is the way it's done, we know it makes no sense" but I keep forgetting how much that applies even to extremely dangerous ideas in important places :( It feels so futile ever knowing anything when things that are just completely bogus just happen and so many people just accept it.
75% accuracy on 32 people? Was one of them an internationally wanted terrorist? Or someone desperately trying to pass an interview to save their life? Or not? I don't know if they had bigger studies as well? Or not? It sounds like it's envisaged as some sort of first-pass, on people who otherwise might be able to just come straight through. But I assume, in practice, it's essentially random, but gives a good excuse to choose between "sorry, nothing I can do, computer's orders" and "well, obviously something went wrong, go straight through" depending on a human's discretion :(
Europe's new lie detector for travelers is pseudoscience
75% accuracy on 32 people? Was one of them an internationally wanted terrorist? Or someone desperately trying to pass an interview to save their life? Or not? I don't know if they had bigger studies as well? Or not? It sounds like it's envisaged as some sort of first-pass, on people who otherwise might be able to just come straight through. But I assume, in practice, it's essentially random, but gives a good excuse to choose between "sorry, nothing I can do, computer's orders" and "well, obviously something went wrong, go straight through" depending on a human's discretion :(