The Lie Detector Was Never Very Good at Telling the Truth

Illustrations: Anjali Nair; Getty Images. Article by Amit Katwala. Wired: Backchannel – March 2, 2023.

For months in the spring of 1921, a women’s-only private dorm at the University of California, Berkeley was rocked by a crime wave. College Hall, located on the northeastern corner of campus, where Hearst Avenue began to climb into the hills, was home to 90 young, mostly affluent women—18- and 19-year-olds, whose possessions kept disappearing. […]

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