quickfix wrote on Jun 8^th, 2015 at 8:23pm:

You simply got caught using CMs and shown the door, as you deserved.

The mental activity the original poster described cannot credibly be characterized as a polygraph countermeasure:


wrote on Jun 8^th, 2015 at 6:26pm:

During the 10-20 seconds between questions I would think of irrelevant things i.e. childhood memories, lunch, my dogs, etc. and stare at the wallpaper trying to make shapes out of it, much like cloud watching.  I did this will the sole purpose of calming myself down, not to influence the outcome of the exam as he put it.