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>The blood flow in our brains changes when we lie Except when we're innocent and anxious, or sociopathic and calm. or misguided and/or dellusional and believe
by coldtea 2y ago
>The blood flow in our brains changes when we lie
Except when we're innocent and anxious, or sociopathic and calm. or misguided and/or dellusional and believe our lies as truth.
In other words, the same pseudoscience as good old "lie detectors".
- bigfatkitten 2y ago> In other words, the same pseudoscience as good old "lie detectors". USG still uses that pseudoscientific nonsense in its security clearance process. They could save a whole lot of money by buying e-meters from the Church of Scientology, and achieve the same result.
- foxglacier 2y agoAs I understand, the reason for using polgyraphs is psychological to see if you could easily be compromised by an adversary. If you can survive a polygraph session, you're perhaps also more resistant to blackmail or other coercion, whether you have anything to hide or not.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoI think they just don't want to admit that they bought into a scam.