Polycop,

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

Could you explain what you mean by this? DoDPI recognizes 12 scorable pneumograph reactions, which are now illustrated in Chapter 4 of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector. A subject who decides to use countermeasures can readily avoid producing any of these while answering the relevant questions.

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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.

The Lie Behind the Lie Detector is not "hawked" on this website: it is given away for free. If readers who choose to employ countermeasures have paid attention when reading the section on behvioral countermeasures (in Ch. 4), they won't come "swaggering" into your polygraph chamber--they'll be courteous and appear to be fully cooperative, behaving just as the polygraph community has come to expect truthful subjects to behave.