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So what if you just did yoga or meditate while making huge pauses between the yes/no answers? That way you kill the stress and they can only ask each question once or twice before time is up. Letting them stress you is letting them win.



There are stories of people taking undetectable microdoses of tranquilizers to beat the polygraph. Think of it as the placebo effect countering pseudoscience.




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