Here is a link to the message thread in which Ted Todd posted his words of wisdom:

http://www.polygraphplace.com/ubb/NonCGI/Forum1/HTML/000342.html

Since Mr. Todd believes that "the more issues you add to the test, the less reliable the results become," perhaps he could explain why he continues to conduct admittedly "less-reliable" multiple-issue pre-employment polygraph screening "tests?"

In the same message thread, Barry C. (Barry M. Cushman, a polygraph operator employed with the Portland (Maine) Police Department), commenting on fidelity "testing," writes:


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...The problem is reactions to questions in those types of tests are only tentative. That is, a person should not be considered deceptive on that type of exam alone, which means if he reacted to any questions you wouldn't really know if he was lying. You'd need to do follow-up testing on each question, which means more time (perhaps other days) and more money, since you can't expect an examiner to do all that work for nothing.

Perhaps Mr. Cushman would care to explain why reactions in pre-employment polygraph examinations would be any less "tentative?" Law enforcement applicants are routinely considered deceptive based on polygraph results alone.