Please find below a link to an interesting study prepared by the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute Research Division Staff in 1995.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/polygraph/tes.html

First, a group of volunteers was “programmed” to be innocent or guilty.  Polygraphs were then administered using several formats.  The results were statistically analyzed.

This seems to have been a great waste of taxpayer money.  Real innocent people were not falsely accused of real crimes and did not face real false imprisonment.  Real guilty people were not accused of actual crimes and did not face valid imprisonment.  Our government played ‘truth or dare’ with itself in the manner of war games and reached a stilted conclusion.

Again, I assert our government must perform an experiment in the real world:  Real rape victims need be accused in a polygraph exam of raping themselves for some bizarre motive and distributing DNA evidence from some vile source upon themselves to falsify the crime further.  This experiment will reveal the vast differences between pretend “programmed” human responses and real ones.

Lloyd Ploense