I used a polygraph machine for many years in my human physiology classes. This polygraph test given to Ford is a joke... You establish a base line with several yes or no questions... such as “is you name Dr. Ford? Do you live in CA? etc. You also lead into the main questions so you can establish an anticipation reactions instead of a surprised reaction. This polygraph test was a farce.
Agreed. The entire matter is way out of hand. Nothing new with these Democraps. Trump could have ended this long ago with a few arrests of key people.
Yep. I know almost nothing about polygraphs. But I do recall one summer watching the Phil Donohue show, and I think he did a series of episodes on polygraphs. It went into great detail on how they are done. Then Phil submitted to a polygraph test by a highly trained tester, and completely crushed the test and made the tester look like an utter fool.
The guests they had on the show had no clue Donohue had done all of this lead up as set up to show how unreliable polygraphs are.
But it was from that show, which showed multiple excerpts from actual polygraph tests, which I remember. I remember the control questions, the step by step questions, the return to the earlier subject questions, etc.
I also remember exactly how Donohue beat the test. He put a nail in his shoe, and by pressing his toe on the nail, he was able to spike his physiological response during the control questions to skew the baseline. He learned it from a criminal he interviewed in jail while preparing the story.