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Comment on How do "lie detectors" work (I mean Polygraphs). If I'm loyal specifically to the constitution of my country, and the interviewers ask if I'm "loyal to [My Country name]", how would that work?

TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If in the moment you’re replying to your own interpretation, you’re fine. But the second you overthink about their intentions, you will be freaking out, and that’s what the machine sees. One technique for bypassing lie detectors is to raise the baseline by flexing your butthole but there’s techniques to catch that, too.

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
How do they catch that? Digital rectal insertion?

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- GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  There’s a pad that you sit on that will register the flexing of muscles in the area.
  
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  - SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And it’s got a little probe that pops out and goes up your butthole?
    
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    GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Remember that these things are basically ad-hoc devices that snake oil salesmen have convinced government agencies to buy into. The fact that your muscles near the buttocks move is enough for them to get the next level of the MLM, the interviewers, to be convinced that it can detect it.
    
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