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Comment #49120327
Federal agents who run the social media subforum think you shouldn't research the polygraph.
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Comment #47526856
A better option to the polygraph is simply nothing. It is better to do nothing than to do something that is known not to work.
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Comment #45943333
Indeed, the FBI participated in the criminal investigation of the late Doug Williams, who offered training on how to pass or beat a polygraph "test." Because there was no actual cr…
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Comment #45943288
You are correct. The Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988, which otherwise prohibits the use of putative lie detectors by employees, provides exemptions for such cases.
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Comment #45943277
That CBS 60 Minutes exposé aired 40 years ago, yet it remains relevant today. It may be viewed in its entirety here: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2007/01/30/cbs-60-minutes-exp...…
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Comment #24197959
On the Jeremy Kyle show, the lie detector drove one guest to suicide (which led to the show's cancellation): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/22/jeremy-kyle-gues...
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Comment #24197787
Beating the polygraph means passing it when you're lying about the relevant issues. Although polygraphy has no scientific basis, the methodology employed makes effective countermea…
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Comment #24197422
Yes, unfortunately. The governments of the following countries, among others, rely on polygraphy to varying extents: Canada, UK, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, and China.
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Comment #21365586
The spam sites that replicate the original page's content make the original page look like low value content, too.