ywing14 wrote:gcomeau wrote:This is overlooking the mindset of the average person who has engaged in such behaviour. That it was drunken partying and everyone was doing it and surely the girl really wanted to participate whatever her protestations and it definitely wasn't them doing anything *wrong*.
Asked a generic "have you committed a felony?" question under those conditions I would have no surprise at him passing.
Ask him "did this specific incident ever occur?" on the other hand...
Well you can say that about any question. A polygraph is only as good as the questions and the Polygrapher.
Which was my point.
Before this any polygraph administrator would have had no idea to ask about this. And generalized questions are of extremely limited utility.
I've seen plenty of people get hemmed up on the felony question.
Sure, I'm guessing generally people with acute self-awareness of the felony they committed who have it on their mind while they are being questioned. Case in point:
We had a guy who confessed to being involved in an armed robbery.
Yeah... pretty sure that guy hadn't managed to convince himself that he hadn't actually done anything wrong committing armed robbery. And that he very very clearly remembered he had done it when it was question time and was on edge about it.
I have a serious doubt that applied to Kavanaugh during any previous polygraphs he was administered.