polygraph

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, polygraph has been mentioned in 3 episodes across 3 podcasts, first heard Dec 2025 on The Diary Of A CEO. Mentioned as a potential method for verifying statements in the kidnapping investigation.

A polygraph, often incorrectly referred to as a lie detector, is a device that measures and records several clinical biomarkers, such as blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate, and skin conductivity, and it is used while a person answers a series of questions to purportedly detect lies. Polygraphic assessments rely on the discredited assumption that some physiological mechanisms or functional state, and their variations thereof, could reliably account for psychophysiological phenomena supposedl