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>So how can you know how to cheat them? I don't understand the basis of your question. To say "this test does not correlate with the phenomenon it purports to
by mistercow 13y ago
>So how can you know how to cheat them?
I don't understand the basis of your question. To say "this test does not correlate with the phenomenon it purports to measure" is not the same as to say "this test is completely random".
Counting how many times a person says the word "baby" during an answer is a piss-poor way to tell if they're lying, in large part because that factor won't correlate strongly with deception. It would also be extremely easy to fool, by simply controlling how many times you say "baby".
- Bulkington 13y agoDidn't mean to say polygraphs are random, but that the US jusice system is so out whack that once someone is under suspicion, conviction (for something) has little to do with guilt or innocence on initial grounds.