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One of my high school students who was an ex detective taught my class how to beat them.

He said put a thumb tack in your shoe, and when asked each question, step on the tack slightly, enough to cause pain. A lie registers as a blip, but so does pain. If every question has a blip, they cannot differentiate.



> He said put a thumb tack in your shoe

The examiner can just require subjects to remove their shoes.


> One of my high school students who was an ex detective

I read this many times. Can you expand on how a detective ended up as a highschool student? Sounds like a fun story.


> One of my high school students who was an ex detective

Should be

"One of my high school teachers..."




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