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Re:Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit by dragonwriter on Sunday June 16, 2019 @06:43PM (#20198437)
> But my polygraph took a couple hours and after a while in that room, being asked the same questions over and over, I honestly started to wonder if I was, somehow, a terrorist and they knew it but I didn't.

That's essentially the purpose of polygraph "testing". Its reliability as a test is no better than coin flipping, the only reason it is used is to create pressure and thereby lead to confessions.

Re:Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit by mrguyorama on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:38PM (#20205401)
I think it's worse than coin flipping. Flipping a coin cannot be interpreted however you want