Even without the boyfriend, her whole polygraph testimony was very weak. No professional would have done the polygraph when a person was grieving from the loss of a family member for one thing. She doesn’t know who paid for it? How can that be - when is the last time you’ve receive professional services and never asked or or received a bill? And there’s the matter of the polygraph session records, which Sen. Grassley has again demanded. Wanna bet one of the questions they want to know about is the very one you posted? Anyone - but most especially someone with a background in psychology - should be asked this question on the record. Ford knows all about galvanic skin response and involuntary reflexes that are very difficult but possible to consciously control, which is how a persons lies can go undetected by the machine.
Yes, something that Scientologists are trained to control through repeated use of their e-machines. It may be a cult, but they prove that one can use their mind to control body reactions. Ford may have fooled the polygraph tester, but not many of us in the public watching her testimony. As pictured in the Star Wars movie, a weak mind is easily manipulated. So many #metoo fools manipulated into believing a liar.
One need not be a genius. A poly is looking for physiological responses to stress and hoping to attach that to a specific question. This requires a “baseline”. It’s YOUR damn body, you get to show them what you want. Sit on a testicle and they’ll never know.