im not agreeing that you were duped. the hyporcisy I refer to is the fact that they must deceive you for their machine to "work" and that you must lie for it to be scored to your advantage.

your argument basically is, I would not have admitted to it had i known their method for uncovering the truth is flawed.

one is never "duped" into making a truthful substantive admission. you are by normal ethical standards, REQUIRED to have candor about potentially DQ-ing information, regardless of what they may or may not do to try to get you to admit to it.

the fact that you WERE lying or willing to lie gives the poly community its mandate to uphold the status quo. You are a poster child for the polygraph community when you say "I would not have admitted to anything had it not been for the polygraph"

many of the pro polygraph sites will say that 85% of the people who fail will admit to something. if they can psych you out into admitting something, more power to them. its no different than using interrogation techniques such as being falsely sympathetic or trying to confuse a lying person by re-angling the questions over and over unti the lie breaks down.