[xjcsa]

I'm not going to lie (rimshot please); I posted this mostly for the title.

[bkepley]

If memory serves the Russians were scared to death of them.

[the_Watchman]

"What is not subject to debate and appears to be beyond dispute is that the polygraph does not detect lies," writes Cumming.

Danger, Warning, Will Robinson!

This is the same rubbish we hear from the Global Warming advocates.

[DBrow]

A polygraph is NOT a lie detector. It monitors some physiological parameters. The human examiner is the lie detector, subject to bias and misinterpretation as are all humans.

And if the person being examined is very much more intelligent than the examiner, and has been 'examined" more than once or perhaps has read a paper or two, it's not too odd that the experienced intelligent examinee could be tough to figure out.

[jiggyboy]

The proof that it's mumbo-jumbo comes when the administrator gives you the big speech about how you can't beat it, it's all scientifically proven, blah blah. Tell him, ok, if the chart tells all, then you give me the test, and have another guy interpret the results without knowing the questions. Oops, sorry, no that's not the procedure. Busted.

[Cicero]

It's said to be fairly easy for an intelligent person to fool a lie detector. I haven't studied the matter, but I would imagine it would be largely a matter of practice, of repeating a sensitive question to yourself until its shock value was defused, and of meditating on something calming, like imagining yourself lying on a green hill in the shade by a lake, or that sort of thing. Same thing you might do to control pain at the dentist.

Would this work? I don't know, but I suspect it would.

[dighton]

I posted this mostly for the title.

You done good.

US nuke boffins rubbish polygraph testing

[Billthedrill]

Boffin, puffin, what the heck - does this look like the face of a liar to you?