“A comparison/ control question is ALWAYS asked first. This was clearly not done.”
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Yes - two things:
First, if that is the entire record of the session, the examiner usually asks a series of questions to calibrate the polygraph’s base line -
e.g. Is your name ———?
Do live in -—?
and so on. They usually also ask a question(s) to “gauge lying”, that is ask them to give a false answer to an obvious questioh, e.g. ask a Caucasian if she is Asian and have have her reply “Yes”.
Second thing - only two questions? That’s absurd on it’s face.
Almost forgot - third point; Polygraphs are notoriously unreliable. That’s why they’re not used in the courts.
A common control question: “Are the lights on in this room?”
The same question is frequently asked two different ways close together to gauge concpsistency of answers and obviously that was not done.
This “polygraph” given to Ford is preposterous. But it wasn’t done to get to the truth. It was done solely so the leftists could shout “She passed a lie detector test!”