Comments by "Spring Bloom" (@springbloom5940) on "Retired agent who gave Ford polygraph test shares insight" video.

  1. Buuuulllllshiiiiit! Ive done the poly about a dozen times(as a subject), since June 1990 and I never answered fewer than 100 questions, with multiple baseline challenges. Typically, its 5 - 10 unique questions, reworded and cross-referenced. Furthermore, you cannot 'pass' a poly - there are three categories of result: possible deception, inconclusive and no detected deception. The nominals, by definition, assume deception and the best possible result achievable, is that you werent caught lying. So no, you cannot 'pasd', or be declared to be 'telling the truth'. Its not used to determine truth, its used to find out what youre nervous or concerned about, so they can focus an investigation. Ive also had some training in 'beating' the poly - our instructor was a clinical psychologist*. The key to beating the 'box', is confidence; conscious awareness that it *cannot detect lies, only your anxiety about it detecting lies.
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  2. Jake Stanley White birth rates dont need to be high, because they dont die off like flies in their teens, from tribal violence.
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  3. No, it literally means she was not obviously lying. The poly is not used to detect lies or truth, only to detect anxiety about specific subjects. This data is used to focus an investigation, not to close it. When they ask if you killed your girlfriend, they expect the box to go nuts. Its the rebound that interests them and the cross referenced results for other questions; for example, increased perspiration and heart rate, when asked if you took a shower the night she was killed. They generally dont poly anyone thats not a hard suspect. They only use it if they need a lead, or if they already know the answers and are hoping that a paper tape full of scribbles will convince you to confess. its never used to eliminate suspicion.
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  4. Emmanuel Anderson Indeed, that man did the job he was paid a handsome sum to do.
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  5. Rational Skeptic Almost correct. They establish a baseline, by asking questions they already know the answer to and they reference that baseline, throughout the examination, with rephrasings of the baseline questions. In a 100 question examination, there will be about 5 baseline questions and 5 - 10 unique questions. The rest are tricky rewordings, to see how your reaction changes. It can detect lies, with an otherwise honest subject, but it wont even see a habitual liar. What its measuring, is basically your discomfort with being dishonest.
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  6. Richard Peterson Pretty much, yes.
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  7. Flabby Bum My experience is that a lot of focus wouldve been place on the identification, like several questions, asking in different ways, if it was Brett Kavanaugh, did you know Brett Kavanaugh, had you met Brett Kavanaugh before that , etc. This would gauge her certainty about the ID. But, questions that the subject supplied, is just bogus. A major component of its utility is the surprise question that you werent prepared for. Duh, its a 'test', you dont get a copy of the test.
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  8. Rational Skeptic Thats what the baseline and baseline challenges are for. A competent examiner works the baseline questions into the interview at several point, usually reworded to catch the subject by surprise, to re-stablish a normalized response. It absolutely does work, but it fails with individuals who are comfortable with lying and with lazy or incompetent examiners.
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