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Originally Posted by Crowbob
Asocial personality types can beat lie detectors quite easily. You really don't have to 'beat" a lie detector test anyway. You just have to confound the results so they become unreliable. For which they are already notorious. In addition, any good lawyer can invalidate and render the findings inadmissable or otherwise tear them to shreds.
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Agreed - in a conventional court setting polygraphs are seldom considered reliable and damning pieces of evidence. However in a different setting with different standards of proof and rules of evidence, they can be a lot more onerous. For example, there are certain employers that can require them as a condition of employment or continued employment - if you "fail" one, you can be terminated without appeal, kind of like it is with drug tests. To fight these kinds of policies would take many years and many tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, so nobody will do it. And they know it. Sadly these sorts of things are becoming increasingly more common...