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Raging Bull: The Lie Catcher!
Catching liars is tricky. On average, our ability to pinpoint fibs is no better than chance. Even cops who are trained to detect deception are only successful 60 percent of the time. The polygraph, invented in 1921, improved those odds to around 65 percent, but it’s so notoriously fluky that it’s used mainly to elicit confessions.
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