[toenail]

I wouldn't take one, either; they're completely unreliable. Some states, to my knowledge, still have statutes and processes in place where the police departments can decline to investigate a rape complaint if the rape victim doesn't take and pass a lie-detector test. Would you want your mother or sister or daughter to depend on the "accuracy" of a lie-detector test in such a case? Polygraph tests are useful almost exclusively if the subject actually believes that they work and is thereby motivated to confess. Otherwise, they're just bad sci-fi.

[Hildy]

Shut up.

[solmar_israel]

I have had a lot of experience with lie detectors.

A modern (not like the one in the movies usually) lie detector which is conducted by a PROFESSIONAL (not just some Joe who took a week long course) is VERY VERY reliable.

In fact, from my experience, people who don't want to take them, are usually lieing.

Secondly, that stuff from the movie that was mentioned is bull$hit. That is hollywood crap. It is very VERY VERY hard to trick a lie detector, assuming you don't have a serious mental complication.

In fact, modern professionally administrated lie detectors are so accurate that the mossad, the shaback, and the CIA feel confident enough to use it on THEIR OWN AGENTS to verify truthfulness.

Don't believe anything in the movies.

Whether or not it should be allowed in court is a more complicated and seperate discussion, but as far as I'm concerned, if you're innocent, and really want to prove it, take one. If you're innocent you'll pass.

[Savage Beast]

Eunice Stone is willing. They're not.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

You can lie and pass a polygraph. Was your original comment to lend support on Eunice's words alone? I would take that over a graph test.