President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth didn't mention it in their speeches before the generals, but thousands of military personnel will soon be required to take random polygraphs. The Washington Post cited two sources in a Wednesday report saying the Pentagon "plans to impose strict nond...
They’re almost entirely bs. Their actual use is just a psychological means to assist with interrogation. It gets a lot of people to answer questions differently than they otherwise would have while being interrogated. It works well against anyone who isn’t completely confident in their knowledge that the machines don’t actually work.
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.
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.
Gee I sure am glad polygraph tests are proven lie detectors and have no issues whatsoever! It’s almost like hearing someone mention phrenology now.
They’re almost entirely bs. Their actual use is just a psychological means to assist with interrogation. It gets a lot of people to answer questions differently than they otherwise would have while being interrogated. It works well against anyone who isn’t completely confident in their knowledge that the machines don’t actually work.
You better watch out, they’ll find out you said that when they start performing seances.
My chiropractor told me seances were just a bunch of voodoo.
Thanks, I hate it
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.