treetop wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2003 at 9:53am:


Treetop,
Unfortunately, the R/I test doesn't seem to have an easy physiological countermeasure like the CQT, since there are no control questions upon which one may augment responses.  The advantage, though, is that the R/I exam is so thoroughly flawed  and produces so many false positives (and  that fact is widely known) that behavioral countermeasures combined with a lack of confessions may carry you through.

You might try randomly augmenting on various relevant questions as well as on irrelevant and "sacrifice relevant" questions that come at the beginning/end of a question set.

You might also try keeping a relatively augmented state going for most of the session.

I should note, however, that I know of no one who has tried either of those techniques, so can't gauge the results.

As you noted, examiners on R/I exams (e.g. for NSA screening) look for "con-spec-nificant" responses.  I would think the key, if there is one, would be to obscure findings on the "specific" and "significant" criteria.

The bottom line, though is that R/I exams primarily seem to be used not for "truth telling", but rather as leverage for getting confessions.

Skeptic