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09-01-2014, 10:58 AM | #22 | |
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My (sister-in-law) is a pathological liar that has taken some before. Always weird useless results. Getting them to label a lie as a truth takes "tricks" that are supposedly not that hard to learn. I wouldn't say those have anything what so ever to do with willpower, except in a cinematic setting that has lie detectors rather than polygraphs. Almost by definition they must be administered without stress as that reduces their accuracy even further. TV examples are always done horribly wrong. You can't spring a question on someone and expect anything other than shock.
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Lie To Me was actually the one which highlighted the unreliability of polygraphs, and demonstrated it by applying eustress to a test subject who wasn't specifically trained to fool the polygraph at all. |
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09-02-2014, 01:39 PM | #24 | |
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Thankfully, she's exceptionally bad at it. For the most part, only other equally screwed up relatives ever trust anything coming out of her mouth. Even when she confessed to her infant cousin's murder, the cops didn't believe her. And any infant related crime leads to lack of objectivity and need to "solve" quickly. (Long story: She was innocent but in the house and unaware at the time of the incident.)
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