Kleinberg, B;
Arntz, A;
Verschuere, B;
(2019)
Being accurate about accuracy in verbal deception detection.
PLoS One
, 14
(8)
, Article e0220228. 10.1371/journal.pone.0220228.
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Abstract
PURPOSE: Verbal credibility assessments examine language differences to tell truthful from deceptive statements (e.g., of allegations of child sexual abuse). The dominant approach in psycholegal deception research to date (used in 81% of recent studies that report on accuracy) to estimate the accuracy of a method is to find the optimal statistical separation between lies and truths in a single dataset. However, this method lacks safeguards against accuracy overestimation. METHOD & RESULTS: A simulation study and empirical data show that this procedure produces overoptimistic accuracy rates that, especially for small sample size studies typical of this field, yield misleading conclusions up to the point that a non-diagnostic tool can be shown to be a valid one. Cross-validation is an easy remedy to this problem. CONCLUSIONS: We caution psycholegal researchers to be more accurate about accuracy and propose guidelines for calculating and reporting accuracy rates.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Being accurate about accuracy in verbal deception detection |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0220228 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220228 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080124 |
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