Comment Re:Robo-Polygraph? (Score 1) 102
Re 'Wouldn't it be much more efficient to just eliminate the polygraph altogether?"
Not if your selling and using the kit at a state and federal level.
The UK and other nations know you have to look at a persons life story, interview parents face to face, extended family, friends. School, local courts, chased down old paper records and build up a real generational life story of reading material, internet use, political ideas, faith, links to other nations, links to other nations faith, cash flow.
The US finds this to be hard work that is stuck with cleared gov staff - no private sector profits. So they have passed testing onto a person doing a test in a chair.
At best they watch your reading habit on the internet, do some digital database searches and very carefully note what your reading before the test. A rapid spike in internet searches for "polygraph" or an order for print books on 'polygraph" before the test is noted.
The rest is just time saving questions about your life, reading lists, political connections, family with the cheap digital review/state federal database search as a guide.
The average person sees a complex medical device and the charm of an interviewer hinting they know the person is feeling a certain way and want to "help".
That the job is great for them, but they have to help with a second or third test and really open up, the 'feelings' aspect.
A real spy knows that they are loyal to, faith is and what the truth is - they have no issues or feelings to mess them up on the day.
An average skilled worker with a lot to offer will over think the questions and might fail. A huge loss for the nation over decades.
The UK thought hard about this in the 1980's and seemed to understand what a real look into a persons life was about vs a digital search and perfect interview skills on one day.
The calm spies stay in, the good useful people mess up and are not considered.
Not if your selling and using the kit at a state and federal level.
The UK and other nations know you have to look at a persons life story, interview parents face to face, extended family, friends. School, local courts, chased down old paper records and build up a real generational life story of reading material, internet use, political ideas, faith, links to other nations, links to other nations faith, cash flow.
The US finds this to be hard work that is stuck with cleared gov staff - no private sector profits. So they have passed testing onto a person doing a test in a chair.
At best they watch your reading habit on the internet, do some digital database searches and very carefully note what your reading before the test. A rapid spike in internet searches for "polygraph" or an order for print books on 'polygraph" before the test is noted.
The rest is just time saving questions about your life, reading lists, political connections, family with the cheap digital review/state federal database search as a guide.
The average person sees a complex medical device and the charm of an interviewer hinting they know the person is feeling a certain way and want to "help".
That the job is great for them, but they have to help with a second or third test and really open up, the 'feelings' aspect.
A real spy knows that they are loyal to, faith is and what the truth is - they have no issues or feelings to mess them up on the day.
An average skilled worker with a lot to offer will over think the questions and might fail. A huge loss for the nation over decades.
The UK thought hard about this in the 1980's and seemed to understand what a real look into a persons life was about vs a digital search and perfect interview skills on one day.
The calm spies stay in, the good useful people mess up and are not considered.