Quote:What I'm confused about is mental countermeasures... such as multiplying your numbers in your head... that is used during an RQ or CQ... I don't understand how it helps in a CQ by raising your response... rather, I see it in RQ as bypassing a question that you are "lying" [about]... and keeping your mind off the subject...
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You never want to raise your level of response on a relevant. Never, ever. By saying that you "bypass" a question, you're saying that the machine can tell that the self-produced spike comes from your physiology, not from a lie. It cannot do that. If it could, it would start bleeping "Countermeasure Alert!". All you'd be doing would be to change the source of the biofeedback, not the reading, and that's what important. You want the RQ readings to be as muted as possible, whether you're lying or truthful.
The reason you use CM's on CQ's is precisely to get peaking results. Why? The CQ's are the independent/dependent hybrid variable upon which your test is scored. That means the results of the test
depend on how much the response BFB of the
independent CQ's tallies above or below the RQ's. If the response is higher, you pass; if not, you fail; if they're equal, it's inconclusive.
However, in a sick form of symbiosis, the efficacy of the results of the CQ's themselves
depends somewhat on how well you can suppress RQ responses, or at least not aggravate them, the latter of which should be your goal. In other words, if you react more on RQ's, you're going to need higher and higher spikes on the CQ's to compensate and make the CQ's outdo the RQ's.
It's kind of funny how this relationship renders the RQ's
independent of both meaningful variables (pass/fail overall and CQ response adequacy relative to RQ's). RQ responses thus, to my mind, take a logical 3rd place even as the interrogator tells you how important they are. Everyone following me here? Good
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You thus are left with the RQ's in this form of poly test almost being irrelevant
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Almost.
Remember, the polyman doesn't care per se about the CQ's. He's not worried whether you've lied, stolen, committed adultery, broken the Sabbath, or driven drunk. He only cares about trying to get you to lie to some or all of the CQ's so that, in his mind, he can compare the CQ lies to the RQ baseline. That's what he does, period. Thus, spike those CQ's. Do what you must, be it lying or a form of CM. It'll outshine the RQ reading, and you'll have a positive result.
Expansion hereon welcome...