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Truth, or Big Data Dare

With all of society's technological advancements, it is a bit shocking that there has only been ONE technology ever developed to sniff out lies. The polygraph, invented in 1921, has barely advanced since. In 2003, The Encyclopedia Britannica listed the polygraph as one of the greatest inventions in human history, describing it as having had “profound effects on human life for better or worse.”

As recently as 2013, the U.S. federal government was indicting individuals who stated that they were teaching methods on how to defeat a polygraph test. Seriously, does anyone else find this disturbing? It seems that as one of the most important inventions in history, the polygraph would have evolved at least once in 95 years? But no, even the U.S. government continues to defend this contraption rather than improve upon it.

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