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[Millard]

About 3 years ago the office I worked in was missing some money, I discovered it missing and notified my supervisor. About a week later, I spoke with our CEO and it had not been reported to him by my supervisor. I quickly volunteered for a polygraph and my supervisor finally agreed to have one also. I went first and was surprised that polygraphs will not work on me. He (the tester) showed me where I should have had a medium sized flutter in the reading but it was a flat line. The reading that should have been very varied, up and down, was a slight ripple. After about five minutes, he took everything off and dismissed me.

Nothing was proven that day and we both were freed of suspicion.

Any interesting similar stories?

[Scott_C4-5]

Millard, on 27 January 2012 - 10:33 PM, said:

About 3 years ago the office I worked in was missing some money, I discovered it missing and notified my supervisor. About a week later, I spoke with our CEO and it had not been reported to him by my supervisor. I quickly volunteered for a polygraph and my supervisor finally agreed to have one also. I went first and was surprised that polygraphs will not work on me. He (the tester) showed me where I should have had a medium sized flutter in the reading but it was a flat line. The reading that should have been very varied, up and down, was a slight ripple. After about five minutes, he took everything off and dismissed me.

Nothing was proven that day and we both were freed of suspicion.

Any interesting similar stories?

I always thought I could beat a lie detector before my injury, and afterwards I was more sure. They measure things like breathing, heart-rate and sweating. All of which, depending on your injury level, do not change, at least as much, due to the disconnect between the brain and body. The same reason we stay cold or hot, never sweat or sweat profusely, is that the hypothalamus which normally controls these functions isn't receiving the necessary stimulus. For instance, I've noticed that when I might happen to read an erotic story (once in a blue moon ), my eyes dilate normally, but my breathing and heart-rate stays fairly normal.

I saw where they had designed a lie detector that mapped the brains functions during questioning. There is no way, supposedly, to beat it as some can do with the current type by putting a tack in your shoe or when asked a question, you disregard said question, ask one of your own in your head and give them the answer to it.

[edlee]

From what I've been told,, by operators,, is that it is as much the response to the question as it is to the answer, that determines desception. That and how quickly one answers. That's why these tests are really subjective,, in that the determination made by two different operators, of the same lines on a graph, may vary.
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