Stonerock Polygraph Quotes

#1. Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. - Author: Sam Ervin

#2. The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people. - Author: Aldrich Ames

#3. In a series of three studies, the offenders who claimed they were abused as a child were 67 percent, 65 percent, and 61 percent without the threat of a polygraph. With polygraph (and conditional immunity), the offenders who claimed they were abused as children were 29 percent, 32 percent, and 30 percent, respectively. The polygraph groups reported approximately half the amount of victimization as children as the nonpolygraph groups did.
Nonetheless, the notion that most offenders were victims has spread throughout the field of sexual abuse and is strangely comforting for most professionals. - Author: Anna C. Salter

#4. The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes. - Author: Aldrich Ames

#5. The polygrapher is not one's friend even if he or she tries to convince one he or she is on one's side. Outright deception! What the polygrapher frequently does is attempt to plant fear in the 'interviewee' by hyping the accuracy of the polygraph machine. For the love of God the polygraph machine isn't God! The more one's afraid that the skeletons in one's closet would be unearthed; the greater one's physiological reactions would turn out. Enough! - Author: S.A. David

#6. To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again. - Author: Ronald Kessler

#7. The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to
whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys. - Author: Ally Carter

#8. If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies. - Author: William H. Ginsburg

#9. The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble. - Author: Aldrich Ames

#10. I wish someone would give my heart a polygraph; it keeps lying and flipping and changing its mind. - Author: Jasmine Warga