The Lie detector heard around the world.
The lie detector changed the world and the world is made up of people. Our society is affected by the lie detector through, new jobs, entertainment, and lowered crime rates. All of the items people buy every day have to be manufactured, and the polygraph is no exception. Just one of the numerous examples of polygraph manufacturers would be Lafayette Instrument Company. This is a huge company because they work as the manufacturer and the distributer which brings in a lot of jobs and in the steep job competition reducing the unemployment rate is very important. The polygraph machine has made a bang in entertainment recently. "The Dr. Phil Show" and "The Moment of Truth" are popular shows that use the polygraph. These shows become part of peoples everyday life’s. Without the innovation of the polygraph none of it would be possible. Society was also effected by the crime rates. Criminals are more timid to rob a store it they know they could be caught lying later. The polygraph makes the world a safer place for the people of America. The polygraph effected society politicaly, economically, and it created oppertunities.
Social Impact
From the New York Times: June 5, 2000
NAPLES, Fla. June 4 (AP)-F. Lee Bailey has testified that days after O.J. Simpson's former wife and a friend were stabbed to death, Mr. Simpson took a polygraph test that Mr. Bailey stopped because it was not going well.
On Friday, in a courtroom where his license to practice law is being challenged, Mr. Bailey said that shortly after the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman in June 1994, he received a telephone call from Robert L. Shapiro, a Los Angeles defense lawyer.
Mr. Bailey, who has said he is an expert on polygraph tests, said Mr. Shapiro had wanted advice about a polygraph test of Mr. Simpson in progress that was not going well.
Mr. Bailey said he told Mr. Shapiro the reason was that the test was being given to Mr. Simpson at an emotional time. "I said shut the test down. You have to let him settle down," said Mr. Bailey, who became part of Mr. Simpson's legal team.
Mr. Bailey said that Mr. Shapiro had taken the test results and that no one had seen them. He said Mr. Shapiro had said he did not have the results. There was no response to messages left today for Shapiro.
Mr. Simpson has said he never took a polygraph test. In the civil case against Mr. Simpson, lawyers for the Goldman family contended that Mr. Simpson had failed a polygraph test shortly after the slayings.
Mr. Simpson was acquitted of criminal charges in the deaths, but a civil jury found him liable for the crimes. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to the victims' families.
Mr. Bailey discussed the polygraph incident while accounting for how his time had been spent defending another client, Claude Duboc, a drug trafficker. Mr. Bailey is accused of misappropriating millions of dollars in stock held by Mr. Duboc.
NAPLES, Fla. June 4 (AP)-F. Lee Bailey has testified that days after O.J. Simpson's former wife and a friend were stabbed to death, Mr. Simpson took a polygraph test that Mr. Bailey stopped because it was not going well.
On Friday, in a courtroom where his license to practice law is being challenged, Mr. Bailey said that shortly after the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L. Goldman in June 1994, he received a telephone call from Robert L. Shapiro, a Los Angeles defense lawyer.
Mr. Bailey, who has said he is an expert on polygraph tests, said Mr. Shapiro had wanted advice about a polygraph test of Mr. Simpson in progress that was not going well.
Mr. Bailey said he told Mr. Shapiro the reason was that the test was being given to Mr. Simpson at an emotional time. "I said shut the test down. You have to let him settle down," said Mr. Bailey, who became part of Mr. Simpson's legal team.
Mr. Bailey said that Mr. Shapiro had taken the test results and that no one had seen them. He said Mr. Shapiro had said he did not have the results. There was no response to messages left today for Shapiro.
Mr. Simpson has said he never took a polygraph test. In the civil case against Mr. Simpson, lawyers for the Goldman family contended that Mr. Simpson had failed a polygraph test shortly after the slayings.
Mr. Simpson was acquitted of criminal charges in the deaths, but a civil jury found him liable for the crimes. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages to the victims' families.
Mr. Bailey discussed the polygraph incident while accounting for how his time had been spent defending another client, Claude Duboc, a drug trafficker. Mr. Bailey is accused of misappropriating millions of dollars in stock held by Mr. Duboc.