# Professor Susan Stehlik offers insights on the effectiveness of office polygraph tests

1 Faculty News October 4, 2018 ![BBC Capital logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_042627.jpg?itok=FVqJkPfR)>

Excerpt from [BBC Capital](http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20181004-if-your-boss-asked-you-to-take-a-polygraph-test-would-you) -- "Susan Stehlik is a professor of management communication at New York University. She likens office polygraphs to a ‘stress test’ for young applicants she observed as an independent consultant for a major hedge fund. 'They’d say to a student, with four or five senior people in the room, give me the square root of 563,000,' she says. She says their rationale was: 'Well, if you’re going to be a trader, you need to know numbers.'"

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