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Originally Posted by Flak
Are you guys kidding? Polygraphs are highly controversial tools and are not all that accurate in most applications.
How about the test was innaccurate or misinterpreted? Who conducted the test? What's thier background? Did they have any vested interest? Were they bribed to interpret the data in a favourable manner? The problem with a polygraph test is that you have no baseline comparison. They are useful, but hardly conclusive. Cmon guys, how about a little critical thinking on your part rather than just swallowing whatever you're fed.
"[Polygraph screening] is completely without any theoretical foundation and has absolutely no validity...the diagnostic value of this type of testing is no more than that of astrology or tea-leaf reading."
- Former Supervisory Special Agent Dr. Drew C. Richardson, FBI Laboratory Division
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He's wrong, they are only in rare cases fooled, I have a friend that gives them for a living and you just cant beat them if your not psychotic. I noticed he's a former agent what, he fail a polygraph and got fired lol? There is a baseline, they gain it by asking you questions that they know are true and others thay know are false.