My question is: Does an applicant with no issues with the relevant questions on a poly have a worse chance of passing after reading this site? I believe that it does. Let me explain.

I found this site when preparing for the FBI written exam.  I searched the term FBI test on the internet looking for info about the test.  That is when I discovered the former nopolygraph.com.

I read the sight off and on for two years as I was going through the process.  Getting more and more amped up about taking the poly although I knew I had no issues with any of the relevant questions.

When the opportunity to take the test came I failed.  I showed 99.9% probability of lie to the drug - selling question and also showed deceptive on the drug- use and accuracy of the application question.

I am in law enforcement so I have had access to candid conversations with polygraph examiners.  All of whom are against pre-employment screening. (It is illegal in my state and one of these polygraphers has testified to the state legislature on the cons of pre-employment screening)

Based on these conversations, I believe that I failed because I had too much information about the test.  Because I knew the control questions didn't matter and failing the relevant questions had consequences, It stands to reason I would have a more pronounced response to the relevant questions as opposed to the control questions.

Are more people failing because of the information available on the internet regarding the polygraph.   Wouldn't we expect other investigative techniques to be less effective if their methods were publicly disclosed?

My advice to those who are facing a pre-employment screening who don't have any issues.  Stop reading.  As pointed out on this forum the test is based on some trickery (like many other good investigative techniques).  And the more you know the less likely you will pass. 

Wow, so now the party line is that merely reading this site will cause a failure in one's polygraph test.

Perhaps if, after each and every time you visit this site you also visit polygraphplace.com, the effects will be counteracted and you will once more be placed into a blissful state of ignorance about the fraud behind the pseudo-science of polygraphy.

My boyfriend is accusing me of cheating on him and i don't wanna call up jerry springer or anything so i told him the i would take a lie detector test, and i'm really nervous because i have cheated on him once but we weren't together at the time. what should i do to pass!!! Is the trick basically staying calm and not getting nervous, will i pass if i'm not nervous?
HELP!!!!!!!

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How could you cheat on your boyfriend when you were not with him.  In your current emotional state you will fail the test.  Get a grip and stop cheating on him.

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Excuse me? You will need to explain that little gem.

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So you get them all straightened out, do you? How does your crowd unring the bell these days?

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Ri-i-i-ght. A more likely hypothesis: Once they determine George and Gino were dead-on in describing your totally discredited pseudo-scientific fraud, they allow you to believe that your lying rhetoric has brought them back to a state of fear and trepidation that you need in order to register anything. They use the countermeasures you cannot detect and you pass them.

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This site saved my life dear fellow. Congratulations on the recent NAS findings,

Dave

Public Servant,

Glad to see you are still with us.  I was afraid the NAS report was going to cower all but the complete yahoos of the polygraph world, those too ignorant to comprehend the consequences for themselves and their colleagues stemming from the aforementioned watershed effort and publication.  Stick around--we should have fun in the coming days and weeks...

Public Servant,

You wrote in part:

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If you re-read Anonymous's post, I think you'll see that he/she meant to exclude you from the population of said "complete yahoos."

Unreasonable,

You failed the polygraph because you lied.