wrote on Jun 24^th, 2002 at 7:35pm:

Now there are people on this site who will point to all the other stuff you wrote about controlling your breathing and thinking relaxing thoughts, etc as "evidence" of what got you through the test.  But as someone who has tested hundreds of applicants just like you, I can assure you that you passed because you told the truth...period...

I'm sorry, Polycop, but according to your other posts countermeasures such as employed by 'Canuck' should have immediately caused a disqualification and an accusation of the use of countermeasures, right? Was it:

1. Just a bad hair day for the polygrapher.

2. The polygrapher was too stupid to discern countermeasures (regardless of whether or not the examinee was lying, he *was* controlling his breathing, right?)

3. Possible that countermeasures such as described in The Lie Behind The Lie Detector are indistinguishable from 'genuine' (non-augmented) responses?

I'm of the mind that it's number three.