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  2. Polygraph - Wikipedia

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    American inventor Leonarde Keeler testing his improved polygraph on Arthur Koehler, a former witness for the prosecution at the 1935 trial of Richard Hauptmann. A polygraph, often incorrectly referred to as a lie detector test, [1] [2] [3] is a pseudoscientific [4] [5] [6] device or procedure that measures and records several physiological indicators such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration ...

  3. The "Objectivity" of Knowledge in Social Science and Social ...

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    The objectivity essay discusses essential concepts of Weber's sociology: "ideal type," "(social) action," "empathic understanding," "imaginary experiment," "value-free analysis," and "objectivity of sociological understanding". With his objectivity essay, Weber pursued two goals.

  4. The Stranger (essay) - Wikipedia

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    The Stranger" is an essay by Georg Simmel, originally written as an excursus to a chapter dealing with the sociology of space in his book Soziologie. [1] In this essay, Simmel introduced the notion of "the stranger" as a unique sociological category. He differentiates the stranger both from the "outsider" who has no specific relation to a group ...

  5. Rashomon effect - Wikipedia

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    Valerie Alia termed the same effect "The Rashomon Principle" and has used this variant extensively since the late 1970s, first publishing it in an essay on the politics of journalism in 1982. [ citation needed ] She developed the term in a 1997 essay "The Rashomon Principle: The Journalist as Ethnographer" and in her 2004 book, Media Ethics and ...

  6. List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Polygraph ("lie detection") [478] – an interrogation method which measures and records several physiological indices such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions. The belief is that deceptive answers will produce physiological responses that can be ...

  7. Social theory - Wikipedia

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    Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. [1] A tool used by social scientists, social theories relate to historical debates over the validity and reliability of different methodologies (e.g. positivism and antipositivism), the primacy of either structure or agency, as well as the relationship between contingency and necessity.

  8. Watch Casey Anthony's Dad Struggle Through Polygraph Test ...

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    George and Cindy Anthony are taking polygraph tests to dispute their daughter, Casey Anthony's, claims. In a clip from the upcoming A&E and Lifetime special, Casey Anthony's Parents: The Lie ...

  9. Wikipedia : Essays in a nutshell/Verifiability and reliable ...

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    Essay In a nutshell Shortcuts Impact 1.5 sources: A term that relates to the use of sources that cannot strictly be categorised as being either primary sources or secondary sources. WP:1.5: Low Allowing forensic crime data: If properly used, forensic crime data can be cited as a primary source. WP:FORENSIC WP:CRIMEDATA: Articles with a single ...