But after a "voice stress analysis" — a test meant to detect changes in voice patterns — "Daniel admitted to showing three or four pornographic video clips to students," the charges allege.
What the what? What fresh police quackery is this?
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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VSA is just like the polygraph. It’s a pseudo scientific test that really takes advantage of most humans subconscious desire to be truthful. You can’t read the graph, most regular people can’t read it either, but the police tell you this is backed by science and they just need to convince the subject they “know” they are lying so they confess. The science is weak, depends on loose interpretation of the human body, is not the same results from human to human or even same human multiple sessions. Oh and wholly depends on the subject feeling guilty and wanting to confess. Helps when they are heavy religious too.
INAL - This internet stranger would advise no one ever willingly take a test (guilty or not). These are NOT admissible in any US court but everything you say, is. The questions asked are often leading, vague and a single “negative“ will lead to more questions.
Source: I studied them way back as an alternative career path in 2001. Left after the first course ended where I realized these are most commonly used to evaluate sex offenders and that shit is a dark road.
Yeah. They used pseudoscience to trick someone into confessing. Just as lie detectors aren’t admissible in court it doesn’t prevent them from being used as a means of coercion.
This is certainly the least troubling thing happening at a troubled teen school in Utah.
I disagree. Those are vulnerable people and this kind of behavior is a big red flag for abuse. If Utah is overprotective of it's wards, it's the only State in the nation that is.
I don't think you're picking up what I'm putting down. The troubled teen industry is notorious for child abuse, and Utah has a history of allowing it. These schools are disgustingly profitable, they pay off politicians and police to look the other way, and if by some chance they do get shut down, the kids get transferred to another abusive school and none of the scumbags running the place get arrested, so they just go start another one. It's an epidemic that the media has only scratched the surface of.
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Dude what?
Why tho...
... Don't answer that.