Polygraph examiner drawing the wrong conclusion. In 1983, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment published a review of the technology and found that The accuracy of the polygraph has been contested almost since the introduction of the device. In 2003, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued a report entitled "The Polygraph and Lie Detection". The NAS found that the majority of polygraph research was "unreliable, unscientific and biased", concluding that 57 of the approximately 80 research studies that the American Polygraph Association relies on to come to their conclusions were significantly flawed. These studies did show that specific-incident polygraph
Heather (given name) Heather (given name) Heather is a common English speaking nation given name, for girls. The name Heather actually refers to a variety of small shrubs with pink or white flowers which commonly grow in rocky areas that is literally referred to as Heather, in English. The brush is native to Scotland and England, but it is more commonly found in Scotland due to its rocky territories. The name is derived from Middle English "hather". Heather has several other definitions. The most commonly known is as a reference to a color mixture, it is most often a pale shade of blue