JohnBoy,

Note that the question about cheating in college was a probable-lie "control" question. (Review Chapter 3 of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector.) If your polygrapher accused you of deception with regard to this question between chart collections, he was probably trying to "sensitize" you to it. This would actually have the effect of "helping" you to pass, as your reaction to that probable-lie "control" question would have been compared with your reaction to a relevant question (perhaps the question about withholding information on your application packet, which is a relevant question).

Of course, none of this has any scientific basis whatsoever: it is sheer quackery, and it is an outrage that our government relies on such nonsense to assess the honesty and integrity of applicants for employment.

But from your account above, it is not so clear to me that you didn't pass. You might have.

JohnBoy,

Based on the new information you have provided, I regret to say that it seems clear that you did not pass.

If, for the benefit of others, you would be interested in writing a more detailed statement about your experience for inclusion on the AntiPolygraph.org Personal Statements page, please get in touch at info@antipolygraph.org.

Human Subject, the way you empathize with that loser John Boy just makes a fella cry.   

And to make things worse George gets his hopes up by telling him he may have actually passed.  George and his advice, both as worthless as tits on a boar hog. 

I guess it's back to Walton's mountain for John Boy.

Human Subject,

Thanks for the head's up bro! Luckily I did not tell too many people about the process but the ones I did tell responded the same way your family and friends did. Luckily my strange sense of humor allowed me to get some laughs out of that! I have several ol' school family friends in the federal law enforcement agencies who 'warned' me of the poly by telling me that telling the truth would not guarantee a passing score due to false positives. That's the funny thing about the poly. Everyone in these agencies, atleast the experienced ones, know how much of a joke the test is. One of the good things about not getting the FED job is not having to take a 25,000 pay cut right of the bat. That would have hurt!

I have heard stories all my life from my LEO family and friends about the jokesters and "geeks" that work in these agencies. It is obvious that our friend 'Fed Up Fed' either just graduated from the academy and is looking to rub his alleged accomplishments in someone's face or is just mad that the real agents at his office never ask him to go and eat at Denny's for lunch. "Hey guys wanna ask the poly nerd to lunch.....haaaaa" I'm willing to bet that first words out of Fed up Fed's mouth after graduation were...."And I get my own gun"....haaaaa. And this guy is suppose to be "protecting us"...now that's the true comedy out of all this.

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Yeah, the funniest part for me is that if they really believed I was guilty of all the misdeeds the polygraph "uncovered" they'd be tailing me 24/7.  (Maybe they are sneakier than I give them credit for, but I haven't seen any evidence of this.)  Or I should be in a cage at Camp X-Ray.

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Based on the appearance of my polygrapher, I would guess he's very familar with Denny's even if he does eat alone.  A really finely-tuned specimen he was.