A new report from the Wall Street Journal shows that Hegseth is starting to see elusive leakers in his nightmares. According to the outlet, Hegseth threatened top officials with lie-detector tests to root out media sources on recent embarrassing stories.
More absolute stupidity from Peter Hegseth. polygraphs don’t really mean much and they’re not even admissible in a courtroom.
Member all those shows where polygraphs, or really any kind of tech that’s advanced enough to be hard to figure out, are just called lie-detectors and treated as if they really do detect lies? Shows where the main character will poke themselves with a pin to ‘trick’ the polygraph, or some other kind of bullshit.
This is what your average lead brained alcoholic boomer accepts as true, because dey seen it on da teevee. A failed polygraph test is absolutely the kind of bullshit that his supporters would eat up as evidence.
That’s what I’m saying. Pete Hegseth is a woefully unqualified moron.
Next up, his top psychic will tell him what to do.
it’ll be like the scene in The Wire where they use a photocopier that prints “True” or “False” on a piece of paper
lol at courtroom being something fascists care about
Courtrooms are the only things preventing fascism from taking hold right now in the USA.
They are an intimidation tool so it seems he is using it appropriately
Eh… They do actually work for most people, unless they have been trained or take drugs to beat them. There is also a small portion of the population that will just throw false positives all over the place due to anxiety. Those are the reasons it’s not admissible in court. People take “not admissible in court” to mean polygraphs don’t work at all and are a pseudoscience, but really they work for like 95% of people.
They “work” in much the same way having a big dude standing over the questioner’s shoulder playing with a crowbar works, they sometimes make the person being interrogated nervous. That’s it. They’re about as accurate and well regarded as phrenology.
They are about as accurate as a coin toss
right thanks for reenforcing my point . Science matters.
Where did you learn that? Can I read it?
Sure, here’s an internet link.