I found it pretty simple to fool a police polygraph.
I was guilty. They said not guilty.
I once failed a polygraph test. It occurred when the questioner asked (as I recall it) “have you ever been in the service of a foreign intelligence agency.” The answer was apparently ambivalent. When I was told the results I went ballistic. When the outfit came to me and said there must be some mistake, I told them to go F themselves. To make a long story short, the next test I took I passed. (I have decades of Top Secret Codeword approval) Thus, anyone who tells me that polygraphs are reliable can go...
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I once failed a polygraph test. It occurred when the questioner asked (as I recall it) “have you ever been in the service of a foreign intelligence agency.” The answer was apparently ambivalent. When I was told the results I went ballistic. When the outfit came to me and said there must be some mistake, I told them to go F themselves. To make a long story short, the next test I took I passed. (I have decades of Top Secret Codeword approval) Thus, anyone who tells me that polygraphs are reliable can go...
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