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Here are the terms generally used by the federal polygraph community to characterize outcomes:
No Deception Indicated (NDI) - a "passing" score. Reactions to "control" questions were significantly stronger than reactions to relevant questions. This may alternatively be called "No Significant Response" (NSR) in screening situations.
Deception Indicated (DI) - a "failing" score. Reactions to relevant questions were significantly stronger than reactions to "control" questions. This may alternatively be called "Significant Response" (SR) in screening situations.
No Opinion (NO) - reactions to relevant and "control" questions were about the same. May also be called "Inconclusive."
Posted by: nunyun Posted on: Dec 23rd, 2004 at 5:48am
sounds like an "inconclusive" result which means that they could not say one way or the other if he was showing a reaction or not to whatever the question was.
Posted by: WalkerTR Posted on: Dec 23rd, 2004 at 3:07am
I have a poly scheduled in a few weeks. At any rate, I was doing some research on the test and chatting with a buddy that was in the hiring process with another agency. He said that he took the poly and that the examiner came back and told him he had trouble with 2 questions. He didn't know why there would be an issue. Then he said that the department called him a week later telling him that his test came back as "no opinion" and was being scheduled for a retest. He said that he was pretty bummed and thought that he failed the test, but this retest gave him hope. I want my test to go over smoothly and I told him about this site to help him out. Exactly what are the outcomes anyway? Is his "no opinon" outcome a possible test outcome? I thought it was, for lack of better terminology, that you are lying or not.