Editing Polygraph (section)

===US Congress Office of Technology Assessment===
In 1983, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment published a review of the technology<ref>{{cite journal|title=Scientific Validity of Polygraph Testing: A Research Review and Evaluation – A Technical Memorandum|journal=(Washington, DC: U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment|date=November 1983|issue=OTA-TM-H-15|url=http://ota.fas.org/reports/8320.pdf|access-date=3 September 2016}}</ref> and found that

{{quote|there is at present only limited scientific evidence for establishing the validity of polygraph testing. Even where the evidence seems to indicate that polygraph testing detects deceptive subjects better than chance, significant error rates are possible, and examiner and examinee differences and the use of countermeasures may further affect validity.<ref>{{Skeptoid|id=4422|number=422|title=Lie Detection|access-date=3 September 2016}}</ref>}}