Stage 1: Telepathic transmission
Sender sends, receiver receives. After a set period of time or a signal of "success" etc. stage one comes to an end.
Stage 2: Polygraph phase
A neutral tester quizzes the receiver who is at that time hooked up to a polygraph:
Tester: Did you receive the word "monkey"?
Receiver: Yes/No.
Tester: Did you receive the word "cellphone"?
Receiver: Yes/No.
Ah, there's the difference. I'm picturing it all being done in one phase. For, say, 100 seconds, the sender continually sends "monkey." During those 100 seconds, the receiver, who's hooked up to a polygraph, is asked every ten seconds, "are you receiving cellphone?" "are you receiving monkey?" and so forth, marking the polygraph printout with "cellphone," "monkey," etc. each ten seconds.
Then the sender does it again, only this time he sends "cellphone."
And again, sending another of the ten words.
Repeat as many times as wanted.
The charts are coded and randomized and handed to the sender, who still has no contact with the receiver or the polygraph operator. If it works, each chart should be flat except for a blip under a different word, the word being sent that time, and the sender should be able to mark the correct word on each chart.
You could also do it by sending for one minute, then doing the polygraph immediately afterwards, asking "
were you sent cellphone?" etc.
But either way, if neither the receiver nor the polygraph operator know what word was being sent until
after the sender marks the charts, I'm not sure how there could be information leakage. Yes, they'd know that
one of the ten words on the list was being sent, but they wouldn't know which one.
Golfy finds a receiver who can manipulate the polygraph, showing either a high or low stress level. Golfy and the reciever have agreed beforehand that if the word begins with A-L he will show a low stress level and if it begins with M-Z he will show a high stress level.
But if the receiver doesn't know which word he was being sent until after the polygraph test, how can he send Golfy a coded message about it?
I don't see any reason for Golfy to look at the polygraph results. The Polygrapher will ask the ten words; only two results are possible: The polygrapher will be able to determine which word the person received or the results of the test will not lead to a clear determination.
It prevents "judging." Having Golfy look at the chart and state what word was being sent makes the result obvious: it's the right word, or it isn't. Having someone else look at the chart means they have to judge which word gave the strongest reaction. Is a low but long peak stronger than a high short peak? Stuff like that. Golfy could say, "No, you read it wrong. Any fool would see that this long hump here is stronger than that spike there." Too subjective. But if Golfy says the chart says cellphone when he was sending monkey, it's obvious whether he's right or wrong.
Furthermore, how could he determine which word corresponded to which set of results? each set of results should (if the receiver answers no for every question) look like nine flat responses and one wide response. How could Golfy figure out which coresponded to what? Each set of results would look the same.
Because, as described earlier in this post, there would be ten words written along the results. Each word should have a flat response beside it, except for one, which would be the word he sent while the chart for those ten words was being made.
By doing a series of tests and handing the coded print-outs to Golfy in random order, it prevents the problem of Golfy knowing which word he was sending. He would know all the words he sent, of course, but he wouldn't know
which word he was sending when that particular chart was made.
Of course, I may be dense here and missing something really obvious, but if Golfy's claim is that he can manipulate people's response to a polygraph at a distance, I think this would work.
Personally, I think the reason that people claim they aren't receiving words from Golfy is because they aren't. And I think polygraphs are unreliable and manipulatable pseudoscience. (Manipulatable--is that even a word?)
But I don't see the problem with including a polygraph in the test,
if neither the receiver nor the polygraph operator know what words were being sent when, and Golfy interprets the polygraph chart himself.
It's double blind. There's no more chance of information leakage than any test where the sender and receiver are in separate rooms sending at pre-timed intervals. And there's no judging: either Golfy marks the words right or he doesn't.
What am I missing?
