You better watch out, they’ll find out you said that when they start performing seances.

I mean, they're fascists. They're almost certainly into full-on eugenics, let alone phrenology!

They work perfectly...if all you want to know is who's nervous about being interrogated.

And it's almost like, those who have been trained and operate within military and intelligence are the best at compartmentalizing information, making it really easy to beat those... Almost like it.

Honeypots / web traffic monitoring can work though

Everyone Googling “beat polygraph” gonna be in doo doo!

Polygraphs are generally "good" at detecting anxiety more than anything else.

Which.. in this case they might actually be a halfway decent tool. Hear me out.

For a lot of the kinds of security clearances that those people would have, regular polygraph checks are a requirement. Hence, they all have a well established baseline and are used to the process. If you are now looking for people who dislike the administration or may have "betrayed" it by reporting to the american people what is going on? Anxiety is quite likely going to go above baseline.

Michael Westin is gonna Costanza his way through that shit. But the analyst who is torn between compiling a list of every single person who probably voted Democrat in the last election versus letting people know that is going on? There are much worse ways to weed them out.

They filed charges a few years on a guy who wrote a book on how to beat them. If they did that then they know they can be manipulated. If they can be fooled then they are useless. I read a article several years ago that stated the first scientist the US government hired to study them concluded it was pseudo science. They were fired and replaced by a group that concluded they worked. No surprise there.

I can't find the article to match up with that statement anymore but there are plenty studies debunking them. I want one to play with. I can to a certain extent manipulate my heart rate. I found this out when I had a heart attack. They hook me up almost every time I go in the hospital which I've been back three times. I can alter my heart rate to slow down and speed up enough make it alarm. I can also control my blood pressure if I'm in the right frame of mind. If I can do that I'm sure I could manipulate a polygraph. I want to be able to write my name with one.

I have some chicken bones left over from last nights dinner. For only $1000 a head I'll throw them on the ground and tell you all about someone.

Underrated comment.

Government custom modified Signal, though the point still stands.

They measure stress. Kind of ironically, it's likely more reliable on people that think it works and thus get stressed while lying during the test. Of course, it can't tell why you're stressed so false positives happen a lot.

This has nothing to do with finding a leaker. All they will do is check the individuals voting record to see if they are deemed a lier or not. Did they vote for Trump the last 3 times? Yes? Welcome to the inner circle. (this totally won't backfire...)

What led to taking 3 polygraphs?

They do work as intended. As a "bad cop"

You expect drunkey maclunkey to know that?

I have a friend that recently received a green card and they asked him if he was communist. Shit really had me cracking up.

If Palantir is at work they can already have the answers. They only need a pretext to fire the people that don't fit.

Nevertheless nobody dares to speak up from now on. So many bad ideas will bind so many resoures. There will be so many Homer's cars. It will be interesting.