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...I've always used a combination of CMs and have always passed. Perhaps I'm lucky and perhaps my luck will run out. For this reason, I feel that I should change my strategy...
2. Do you think a mental CM is sufficient to produce a stronger response to a CQ than a lie would to a RQ? Wouldn't such an action just as likely cause a polygrapher to accuse one of using CMs? If they are going to make the accusation one way or the other, then what difference does it make?
Will anybody admit to passing a polygraph using only mental CMs? While lying to a RQ?
...I'm not sure of the etiquette of mentioning a specific polygrapher on this site.
You don't need to change your strategy based on speculated "luck". If it's worked for you before, whatever CM or other procedure you've utilized, stay with it if you don't have concerns about its adequacy. If you really feel like you've gotten by on luck, then discard whatever you feel is luck-based, or however much CM usage you deem perhaps to be causative or potentially causative of inverse returns for you.
A mental CM, if done well and intensely, probably could make your BFB soar off the chart. If you have a strong anal sphincter, you can cause a cramp in the muscle by contracting, and that would send the feedback into convulsions. So, yes, I suspect that any adverse RQ BFB could be outdone by CQ manipulation. Might the polygrapher notice? Sure. If every question and response causes the readings to spike, he's probably going to wonder what's up. That's where mental CM's are so good; he can't prove you're doing anything, whereas he -might- notice (chancy) a physical CM.
Remember, you don't want to aggravate an RQ reading. If they're high amplitude, a polyman will likely suspect deception; to them, high amplitude=probable lie. He won't accuse you of CM's, probably, based on RQ feedback; he'll accuse you of deception/lying. So, no, similar tracings resulting from CQ's vs. RQ's will likely lead to different conclusions, if any, from the interrogator.
I use mental CM's. I do what I have to do on RQ's
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So far, I am unbeaten.
And you don't want to start outing polygraphers, imho. One of them might remember you. They do keep records... they don't walk into that room to test you without some background on you...