According to a study conducted by Honts, Raskin, and Kircher (1994), the use of countermeasures reduced the detection of guilty suspects by 50%, and the examiners were not able to tell that the suspects were manipulating their own arousal patterns. This was a findings from their research titled "Mental and Physical Countermeasures Reduce the Accuracy of Polygraph Tests".
In the United States, "Redcoat" is associated in cultural memory with the British soldiers who fought against the Patriots during the American Revolutionary War.