The Truth About the Polygraph, According To the NSA 452
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An anonymous reader writes "The NSA (the secretive intelligence agency that brought you wholesale warrantless wiretapping) has produced a public relations video about its polygraph screening program titled 'The Truth About the Polygraph.' But is the NSA telling the truth? AntiPolygraph.org provides a critique (video)."
If I ever had to take one.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Complete Bullshit (Score:5, Funny)
I posted about that earlier in response to this when it had no comments, but my comment has gone walkies..
Based on the test results, you're lying.
Re:Polygraph (Score:1, Funny)
RCMP?
Royal Canadian Muppet Police?
Re:Complete Bullshit (Score:1, Funny)
Re:If I ever had to take one.. (Score:3, Funny)
subjecting the person under assessment to unfamiliar, semi-stressful conditions while asking probing questions..
So its like being abducted by aliens but with less anal probing and more question probing...
Re:Complete Bullshit (Score:4, Funny)
Non ACID-compliant databases are the current norm. So, be quiet!
We are supposed to believe (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If I ever had to take one.. (Score:3, Funny)
You've obviously never been in the custody of the NSA before.
Besides, they got all their interrogation and research tactics from the Grays, anyway. I know this since the voices in my head has telled me so.
Re:Complete Bullshit (Score:5, Funny)
But, in Soviet Russia, polygraph examiner beats YOU!
Re:Polygraph (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Polygraph (Score:5, Funny)
I saw a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I think he's from the NSA.
Re:Polygraph (Score:2, Funny)
...though police do use it during their investigations.
They also use it on Maury to find out if your baby daddy is cheating on you.
Re:Polygraph (Score:4, Funny)
I've heard that story too, but the fact is that the photocopier lie detector has as much scientific evidence to support it as a Polygraph does.
Re:a placebo to make you believe your lies are see (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but without the volcanoes. Big difference.
Re:a placebo to make you believe your lies are see (Score:3, Funny)
Reminds me of the early days of Scientology. I was attending MIT, and there used to be recruiters who'd harass you when you went through Central Square, asking, "Do you want to take a free personality test?"
A friend of mine came up with the perfect response. He'd say, "Did you pass?" Without exception, the recruiters would respond (with a straight face), "Oh, no, it's not *that* kind of a test."
It was freaky, like they'd lost their capacity to recognize irony along with their body thetans.
Re:I think I saw one of the video participants (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, please, for the love of god, mod parent up!