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How to Beat a Polygraph Test
NY Times ^ | April 10, 2015 | MALIA WOLLAN

Posted on 04/10/2015 5:39:30 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

“A polygraph is nothing more than a psychological billy club used to coerce and intimidate people,” says Doug Williams, a former Oklahoma City police detective and polygraph examiner who for 36 years has trained people to pass the lie-detector test. The first step is not to be intimidated. Most tests include two types of questions: relevant ones about a specific incident (“Did you leak classified information to The New York Times?”) and broader so-called control questions (“Have you ever lied to anyone who trusted you?”). The test assumes that an innocent person telling the truth will have a stronger reaction to the control questions than to the relevant ones. Before your test, practice deciphering between the two question types. “Go to the beach” when you hear a relevant question, Williams says. Calm yourself before answering by imagining gentle waves and warm sand.

When you get a control question, which is more general, envision the scariest thing you can in order to trigger physiological distress; the polygraph’s tubes around your chest measure breathing, the arm cuff monitors heart rate and electrodes attached to you fingertips detect perspiration. What is your greatest fear? Falling? Drowning? Being buried alive? “Picture that,” Williams says. He used to advise trainees to clench their anus but has since concluded that terrifying mental imagery works better.

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To: Second Amendment First

I want Harry Reid on a lie detector and Nancy Pelosi and ask them if they use the “n” word or smoked dope.


21 posted on 04/10/2015 6:26:09 PM PDT by iowacornman (Speak out with courage!!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Bad idea. Everything will be used AGAINST you. Nothing will be used to exonerate you. They don’t need your help.


22 posted on 04/10/2015 6:27:30 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
I’m a degreed EE.

And what is that, for us non-EEs?

23 posted on 04/10/2015 6:28:17 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Second Amendment First

Well everyone knows the #1 way to get away with lying is to be a Democrat.


24 posted on 04/10/2015 6:32:24 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 15 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

EE = Electrical Engineer

i.e. a computer science guy


25 posted on 04/10/2015 6:36:41 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Larry Lucido

LoL!


26 posted on 04/10/2015 6:40:27 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: PistolPaknMama

It’s either a very large brazier size or an Electrical Engineer.


27 posted on 04/10/2015 6:41:02 PM PDT by MilesVeritatis (Devote yourself to the truth, no matter where it leads you.)
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To: Second Amendment First

I had to take one of those when I was in high school.

“Have you ever tried to touch my Daughter’s breast?”

“Ummmmm.....no.”

Zing!!!

“The machine says you’re lying.”

“OK. OK. Once. I tried to once.”

Zing!!!

“The machine says you’re lying again.”

“Boy it’s hot in here.”

“I suppose it is for lying sex fiends.”

“Well, your daughter is so beautiful.”

“Now, sex fiend, did you ever try to unbutton my Daughter’s shirt?”

“No Sir. I would never try that.”

Zing!!!

“Looks like the machine has caught you lying again.”

“Aren’t those machines usually hooked up to electricity? This looks like you holding a pen on a piece of paper.”

“I’ll ask the questions, sex fiend. Why were you so late getting my Daughter home last weekend?”

“Ummmmm.....we fell asleep at the drive in.”

Zing!!!

“Looks like you’re lying again.”

“Damnit.”

“Have you ever tried to get my Daughter to touch your.....member?”

“Member? I don’t belong to the Elks club.”


28 posted on 04/10/2015 6:49:39 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Second Amendment First

If it is the police, use the “conditionally” approach.

i.e. “I’ll take one if you do the same. My operator will ask you questions like ‘Have you ever tampered with or suppressed evidence’, ‘Have you ever taken anything from the evidence room’, ‘have you ever framed a person you knew was innocent’ “, etc.

Betcha they’d never ask you again.


29 posted on 04/10/2015 6:54:18 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Imagine people just telling the truth.


30 posted on 04/10/2015 6:56:33 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Second Amendment First
I will never take a polygraph period. They aren't admissible in court.

Beyond that, don't talk to the police

31 posted on 04/10/2015 6:57:24 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We need a conservative electable candidate in 2016)
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To: dainbramaged

“I throw PVCs pretty often.(premature ventricular contraction)”

I had that problem when I was 16.


32 posted on 04/10/2015 6:58:06 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: MilesVeritatis

The bra size was scaring me just a little.


33 posted on 04/10/2015 6:58:35 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Gay State Conservative

“If I was ever being investigated by the police and *knew* I wasn’t guilty I’d give them anything they wanted.Fingerprints...DNA...computers,etc,etc,etc”

you are making several assumptions that history has proven untrue:

1. That police are objective.
2. That police are out trying to find a guilty party.
3. That being innocent means you will not be charged.
4. That being innocent means you will not be convicted.

This is not how it works.

They quickly find the person THEY consider the most likely to have committed a crime and then do their best to prove a case against them.

Anything you say can and will be used against you.
You will be lied to.
You will be tricked.

Get a lawyer. Do not talk to them without a lawyer.


34 posted on 04/10/2015 7:07:38 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: Second Amendment First

Envision anight in prison, it does both


35 posted on 04/10/2015 7:08:53 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Second Amendment First

Simply don’t take one. It’s not good in a court of law. It’d be self incrimination if you don’t pass it.


36 posted on 04/10/2015 7:09:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Addition to the previous post...

If federal agent come to talk to you, there will be two.

Do not talk to them without making it clear you will record the interview in your attorney’s office. They will refuse to be recorded.

Their scam is to have one agent ask questions and the other write down whatever he wants. That written record - if it is the only one - is the sole record of what “you said” and will be accepted by a court as what was actually said, even if you did not say it.

Never make the assumption that any officer is on your side. The Constitution declared rights for a reason.


37 posted on 04/10/2015 7:11:26 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: Second Amendment First

This sort of advice has been all over the internet since there was one.

Its nothing new.


38 posted on 04/10/2015 7:31:36 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: Second Amendment First

later


39 posted on 04/10/2015 7:34:54 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: yarddog

“The interesting thing was the inspector finished the examination then we just sat there for another half hour and shot the bull. To my surprise he mentioned that he noted I had never used a single word of profanity during the entire time. It then struck me that he was still investigating when I thought he had finished and we were just talking.”

I always tell people that a job interview begins at first contact and doesn’t end until the first paycheck. Pretty much the same here.


40 posted on 04/10/2015 8:01:20 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my home page))
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