{"id":3866,"date":"2003-01-10T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2003-01-10T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2021-03-07T01:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T06:50:37","slug":"the-dirty-little-secret-about-polygraph-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/10\/the-dirty-little-secret-about-polygraph-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The &#8216;Dirty Little Secret&#8217; About Polygraph Tests&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The <em>Washington Times<\/em> published a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030421221528\/http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/op-ed\/20030110-63140375.htm\">letter<\/a> by AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke in response to Ann Geracimos&#8217; 9 Jan. 2003 article, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030702134759\/http:\/\/dynamic.washtimes.com\/twt-print.cfm?ArticleID=20030109-75849740\">&#8220;Interpreting a polygraph test.&#8221;<\/a> Excerpt: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Interpreting a polygraph test&#8221; (Metropolitan, yesterday) only scratches the surface in explaining how polygraph tests are interpreted. The dirty little secret of the polygraph community is that the &#8220;test&#8221; depends on trickery, not science. The polygrapher exhorts the examinee to answer all questions truthfully, but secretly assumes that denials to certain questions &#8212; called &#8220;control&#8221; questions &#8212; will be less than truthful&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times published a letter by AntiPolygraph.org co-founder George Maschke in response to Ann Geracimos&#8217; 9 Jan. 2003 article, &#8220;Interpreting a polygraph test.&#8221; Excerpt: &#8220;Interpreting a polygraph test&#8221; (Metropolitan, yesterday) only scratches the surface in explaining how polygraph tests are interpreted. The dirty little secret of the polygraph community is that the &#8220;test&#8221; depends &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[333],"class_list":{"0":"post-3866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-george-w-maschke","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3867,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}