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Kash Patel Is Polygraphing FBI Staff to Find Out if They’re Being Mean About Him
(www.thedailybeast.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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While that is true, they have several techniques to make people nervous specifically about their lies.
They ask them baseline questions such as their name to establish general nervousness. They can give the list of questions beforehand so that your expectation of the question you plan to lie about will make you more nervous.
And then there are ways to avoid lies causing nervousness. The best one is that some people can convince themselves that the lie is the truth. Other methods include certain drugs or distracting yourself in certain ways.
I know you are trying to be informative and nothing you said is wrong, but that opening sentence makes it sound like you are defending the practice of polygraphy which is pseudoscientific, inaccurate, and unethical. I have a feeling most downvoters never got past that first sentence.
I understand, but if I wrote comments with those types of people in mind, I'd never be able to say anything worthwhile.
The problem is the platform. There should be no option to downvote comments. It should just be upvote, reply, and report. Allowing people to downvote comments only leads to this sort of antisocial anti-intellectual behavior.
Pish-posh! Proofreading can help with that as can thinking about your audience. It’s certainly a skill that needs to be developed, but you have plenty of interesting points to make and only have to tweak the presentation. For example, you could preface your post with a statement of intent.
“Look, I’m not defending the practice but…” would do.
For example, I was raised evangelical and am now a deconstructed atheist. I still interject regularly on scriptural topics that people frequently get wrong, which can result in others assuming I am an advocate. I am not, so I try to preface those kinds of statements with qualifiers.
This is a lot of effort simply to avoid comment downvotes, and I did in fact hedge my comment in the first four words.
This is going to sound tautological, but comment downvotes against my comments only express the opinions of the type of person who would downvote my comments. It's like that quote about not playing chess against a pigeon. If anything, I want them to respond to my comment so that I know who they are. I'd argue that if the platform allows comment downvotes, and this goes only for comment downvotes, not for upvotes, or post votes, but if the platform allows comment downvotes, then it should also allow any user to see who downvoted the comment. If my hedge in the first four words of my comment isn't enough to convince people to have enough curiosity to read past the first sentence, then the truth is that I don't think they're worth my time. If they're the type of people who downvote my comment, then I don't really want anything to do with them. It's simply evidence of bad behavior.
Y'all downvoting OP for laying out the methodology.
If you want to make informed decisions, you have to start with the truth. Imagine if people listened to that guy and someday took a lie detector test, only to realize too late that people do get nervous specifically when they lie, and that the test is designed to enhance that.
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