Confessions Key to Polygraph Success

The highest-level security clearances usually require successful completion of a polygraph exam. The CIA, FBI, NSA, U.S. military, and others employ the exams routinely.

Before sitting for the exam, it is helpful to know what it’s all about. Few do.

An article in today’s Wall Street Journal mentions the importance of volunteered confessions to the success of polygraph exams and serves as a reminder that it is not the exam itself that reveals sensitive information but, rather, the perceived ability of it to do so that scares its victims into confessing actual or perceived wrong-doing.

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