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"... a technique used to gauge your alertness/nervousness and truthfullness ..." Baseline response.

• goatforce5 16y ago
  ...yeah, I figured out that's what they were trying to do, as he kept asking the same inane questions repeatedly in rapid fire. Turns out my baseline for him was a quizzical "Are you serious?" look on my face. (I guess maybe that looks different to a "OMG THEY'RE ON TO ME!" reaction.) A very strange little encounter. And if it was just "security theatre", I can't imagine the passengers behind me were comforted by someone being snatched from the line, having their bag riffled through and then put back in line just before getting on a 7 hour flight.