Oh you are a lot of help George!.....better tell your minion (who better think twice about using CM's) to be wary of at least two questions:

a.  Are you sometimes called Diesel?
b.  Have you done anything to alter the outcome of this test?

Naw!....Bozos like Beech Trees and especially Skeptic would NEVER make it through the initial screening...They would be eliminated long before they EVER got to the polygraph stage.  Besides, would not have tyo detect the countermeasures...their physiological response to the QUESTION would be enough to affirm that they were using countermeasures and eliminate them due to their actions....remember, honest people have nothing to hide.

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It's a shame that the need for anonymity on both our parts precludes me from relating just how wrong you are; sufficeth to say not only did I pass your little polygraph (administered by a DodPI grad), I also passed alllllllllll the other screening exams and investigations and I happily work in the career of my choice.

With regard to your 'honest people have nothin to hide', I find that especially egregious considering polygraphers lie for a living. They lie to their test subjects, they lie to their superiors concerning the scientific accuracy of the polygraph, they lie to the press about the polygraph's accuracy, and they lie here when they post offal like 'their physiological response to the QUESTION would be enough to affirm that they were using countermeasures...'

This bozo will now need his enormous floppy red shoe back when you're done removing it from your ass,

Dave

CHOSE not take the job???...I hear it a little different!  Care to come clean to all of your followers? After all, you are one of George's minions.

Beech Trees, Skeptic,

I think "Guest" is unwittingly making a significant contribution to this discussion by illustrating for Diesel and others just what sort of characters they may encounter when they show up for their polygraph interrogations.

Skeptic wrote on Dec 30^th, 2002 at 8:05pm:


That may be a part of the rather churlish and superficial comments made by "guest" but, even so,  I suspect the NAS report will have less impact than one might expect.  I believe that the main reason the polygraph's use had been limited is the wide sense that it is an invasion of privacy, not it's lack of accuracy. The wide popular belief in it's accuracy has not been impacted much. The technical literati already were aware of it's shortcomings, for others it was just more noise.

For instance, Dr. Schlessinger continues to make pro-polygraph comments (save up for a lie detector test, etc) which rather suggests a certain level of ignorance re the way polygraphs work. It's especially curious given the normal practice of LE when looking at estranged family members with a homicide victim. She is fortunate that, by dint of circumstance, she is exempted from a process that would likely be inflicted on most american families.

-Marty

Was just a name because i couldn't chose anything better...as for the outcome, they know everything, including the 2 times i smoke pot, and the stolen steak i receieved from a friend at school....thats bout it, but i dont want to be nervous, and just screw up from that..i know i have nothing to hide, but the whole polygraph irks me....