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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not an advocate for polygraphs, but in my line of work I know quite a bit about them.  No accredited federal polygraph examiner would score a subject as failing based on the question "Is there anything you are not telling me?"  In fact, I'm pretty sure that no question like that would be asked while a subject was attached to the machine.  What more likely happened if there was a significant response to a question such as "Have you committed any serious crimes?"  Then, AFTER being removed from the machine, the examiner asked about all of the reasons why there may have been a response to that question.  After the subject and examiner discussed any and all reasons why the subject may have had difficulty with that question (Have you committed any serious crimes?), he would go back on the box and ask the same question again.  If there is still a response, the subject fails.

You may want to have a discussion with your husband about what question he really responded to that led to the failed poly.  [/quote]

The issue is that poly's are not accurate in pinpointing a particular issue no matter what the polygrapher's guild says. They are good in measuring general uneasiness, which can be somewhat trained away or with people who compartmentalize very well, useless. I've taken 3 of them and kept getting hit on 'have you ever been in contact with a foreign intelligence service' and/or questions related to foreign national contact even though I've been out of the country only twice in my entire life for a family vacation.

furthermore if poly's are so accurate, why do they redact and keep your own session classified from you when you foia your file? So sure, the polygrapher says 'this question is what you are showing a reaction on' but you'll never get a printed/written account of that so you never know if you really are buzzing on that question or not.

I might be taking one or two next year and I know now it's a dice game and the best way to go with it is not really not give a fuck, which is tough for type-a analytical types but its something you just have to accept unfortunately. [/quote]

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