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[Avatrix]

[SPEC] Beating the PQI

[meetingpeopleiseasy]

Bingo.

[The Luggage]

"Is he a terrorit, do you think? Oh, I mean no."

[chaotic_mind]

The replacing questions with others is rather obvious. You can tell the cop is catching on, and doing his best to run interferrence by throwing Jan off with his weird shifts of tone and mood.

Luke P.

[pjv2]

I wonder if this method would work IRL

[Elec]

It could, though it would have to be done silently. There is no conversation in a polygraph exam, simply questions and answers. You would have to hear the question and do a quick mental replacement of it with one you were comfortable answering. You'd have to be very well practiced, since the replacement act could cause a spike and you'd have to internalize the question at least a little to understand you needed to replace it (for example "Have you used drugs?" -> "Do I kill babies? Of course I don't!").

A polygraph registers anxiety and considers it a lie response. Because of this, having a problem with a question is enough to make you "fail" that particular question. Let's say they asked whether you were an axe murderer. Through some cruel twist of fate, your grandmother was killed 12 years ago by an axe murderer (unbeknownst to the examiner). Now when they ask you the question, you know that you're not an axe murderer, but you'll get a horrible flashback to what happened to grandma and that'll probably spike your results, making you look like a liar no matter what your answer is (not that you'd say yes).

It is possible to beat a real polygraph. One way is to have inconsistent results (you give the same answer to a question asked twice but one reads truth while the other reads lie). Another is to be so incredibly worked up that you're all over the chart for the duration. If you have good physical control, you could do very slow, deep breathing while letting your heart race out of control. Regardless, a single exam is all relative to itself and requires a lot of interpretation. At the end of the day, a person (or several) look over the results thoroughly and give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. A real life polygraph is not an iron-clad indicator of truth, which is why it's not admissable in court. The future/Haloverse seems to have a better version.

[Oea]

Yeah, I noticed that exact thing and tried to tell people but with the axons going crazy, nobody would listen.

She (sometimes more clever than not) fooled it for most questions.

This is more evidence that either Jan is a SPARTAN, or some sort of AI that was made into human-form (somehow, the SMART questions lead me to think this aswell)