If you had to pick someone in your life who would THINK they could beat a lie detector, who would you pick?
A poll asked people if they thought they could pass a polygraph test, and 67% said YES, 8% said YES, even if they were lying, and 6% said NO.
The group most likely to think that they could beat a lie detector test even if they WERE lying is: Men, between the ages of 18 and 29.
Many people don’t seem to have a lot of faith in lie detector tests.
12% say they believe polygraph tests “often” wrongly label people who are telling the truth as lying. Another 43% say it probably happens “sometimes.”
And 13% say they think polygraph tests “often” wrongly label people who are lying as being truthful. Another 45% say it probably happens “sometimes.”
(Or maybe they were LYING about their feelings in this poll?) (???)
