Circle the correct words to complete the article about the lie detector tests.
The Awful Truth
Recently, the United States Supreme court said/told employers that you/they were no longer
allowed to give lie detector tests (also called polygraph tests) to people they wanted to hire.
Curious about these tests, I talked to Erica Dalei who took once a couple of years ago. She
was one of the last employees in our organization to take the test.
“ The examiner was very nice,” she told me. “He asked her/me a lot of harmless questions
first.” During the test, Erica told the examiner that I/she lived in the suburbs. When he asked ,
she said that it was/is Monday and that she took/ had taken the bus to my/her interview.
Then he brought up some tougher subjects. “I told him/you that I got/had gotten into trouble
for stealing in high school.” Erica said. “There wasn’t any point in lying about it.”
With its rows of knobs, its wire and coils of paper, a lie detector is definitely a low tech-piece
of equipment. He devices are still used by police even tough experts say that they didn’t/
don’t measure truth, only physical reactions to questions. Some questions increase a person’s
blood pressure and create other physical changes that the polygraph measures. “The tests
are/were only about 50 percent accurate,” say some critic. “They belong the museums.”
Buzz Faye, who served three years for a crime he didn’t commit, agrees. After his arrest, the
officials gave him a lie detector test. They told him that we/they plan/planned to drop
charges if you/he passed. “Hey , great “ said Faye. Unfortunately, he failed –twice* and
spent three years in jail. Later, someone said/told the police that Faye didn’t commit/ hadn’t
committed the crime. Faye was released when the police learned the names of real criminals.
A polygraph expert who saw the tests said that the police scored/had scored Faye’s tests
improperly. Since his release, Faye has been campaigning against the use of polygraph tests.