Beechtrees,

Nice to hear from you again.  Allow me to answer your questions:


wrote on Jun 24^th, 2002 at 7:50pm:

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.

1.  If you read all my posts, you would have seen that evaluatable respiratory responses can be identified even through attempts at "controlled breathing"

2.  If you think about it, "countermeasures" were around long before the advent of this website.  In many cases, people, both truthful and untruthful controlled their breathing and otherwise attempted to "relax" themselves during the test.  We are used to this, expect it, and truly try to work with these people.  The applicants who are getting disqualified for "countermeasures" are the ones who come swaggering into the polygraph lab with a copy of some internet countermeasure "book", like the one hawked on this site, physically or figuratively under their arm.

Hit me with your best shot... ;D

Polycop...


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