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In reply to the discussion: Here's the deal with Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage [View all]Caliman73
(11,728 posts)38. Lie detector tests don't work well on sociopaths.
A lie detector test is basically a physiological response detector. When people who have a conscience tell a lie, there are physiological responses (maybe even imperceptible to the eye) that occur. That is what the lie detector is picking up.
Trump has no empathy and no sense of shame. He lies within the same sentence and will lie multiple times within a conversation and not lose one ounce of sweat over it.
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Since, as you correctly say, someone could have a NA ancestor but no DNA from that person
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#24
I've taken the test and it's very unreliable for amounts under 6%. It was fun to see that the
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#39
The poster is right. Just as two siblings can inherit very different mixing of genes --
pnwmom
Nov 2017
#40
Climate change will wipe us all out soon and this is what THEY want to talk about
Eliot Rosewater
Nov 2017
#5
Suuuure. Just like Obama's citizenship was "put to rest" by the release of his birth certificate
Hekate
Nov 2017
#15
Don't give in to the ratfcking. It never, ever stops, and nothing will satisfy the haters
Hekate
Nov 2017
#17