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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by klondike_ on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:15PM (#26718995)
Polygraphs are intimidation devices with no scientific merit. They don't work. By making people believe that they do work, sometimes interrogators are able to get people to admit things they otherwise wouldn't.

Polygraphs are not admissible as evidence in court and civilian employers are not allowed to administer them to employees. Regardless, the US Government still uses them for security clearance.

More information: https://antipolygraph.org/

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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by marshmallow_12 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:33PM (#26719118)
your answers and the fact that no one is defending polygraphs indicates to me that i'm not far off the mark. In which case, why on earth is the FBI messing around with it? My conclusion, corroborated by this story is that they are not so professional as they would like you to think. This is compensated, probably with interest, by being very heavy handed. But surely that is no way to run a large agency.
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by boomboomsubban on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:58PM (#26719730)
The FBI is nowhere near as professional as people are led to believe. The lie detector test isn't even unique, we are not even a decade removed from evidence showing nearly all their forensic techniques were utter shams.
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by pure_simplicity on Saturday April 10, 2021 @06:09PM (#26765617)
do you have some resources on this?
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by boomboomsubban on Saturday April 10, 2021 @06:26PM (#26765769)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Laboratory#21st_century_co...

The 2009 NAS report is particularly damming, but I can't find a free copy and I guess that's over a decade now, my mistake.

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