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I love how you place all those specifiers on everything so nothing is ambiguous (just the opposite of what control questions do in a polygraph exam) like "experimenting", "in college", "candybar" and "when you were a kid".
But when revealed indiscretions don't meet the polygraphers litmus test for "things many applicants have done" (whatever the hell THAT is supposed to mean) then the chart-gazer gets all that leeway to either minimalize or exaggerate the crime as he or she sees fit.
And heaven forbid someone to be ashamed of what he or she has done in the past, or have fear that past transgression will be held against them, such that they do what "many humans have done" and lie about it ... oh no, anyone who lies has no integrity.
"Experiment" with all the "pot" you like, dear applicant, as long as you're in "college".
But remember, at some point that polygrapher gets to decide that it went beyond "experimentation". And now, you're just a dope smoking drug addict who probably can't wait to get out of his office so you can go puff on some more weed.
Let's look at the logic again folks:
Lying = no integrity
Anyone reading this ever tell a lie? Well guess what ... you're not a morally sound individual ... imagine that ...
Rubik, Bullplop, confusing, Bunk, et al, (you're all the same person, right?)
Is the concept of personal integrity that difficult for you (all of you) to grasp? If you are applying for a job as a police officer, the personal history statement asks you if you stole things, smoked pot, etc...they expect that you are, no demand that you are 100% honest with them. At the end of that personal history statement, you sign your name swearing that everything on the statement is 100% true. They give you plenty of time to think about your past, and the chance to come clean about anything you may have forgotten.
THAT would be the time to admit to your indiscretions, not during the polygraph post-interview. If during the polygraph post-test interview you admit, "yeah, I smoked a lot more dope than I put down on my personal history statement," what the hell do you expect to happen? How do you think your personal integrity rates after swearing that the info in your personal history statement is 100% true, then a few days after signing that statement, you are caught in a bold faced lie? I'm not even talking about the stupid polygraph charts here, I talking about admitting to lying on the history statement after the fact, when you're not even hooked up to the machine. Any credibility you had prior to starting the interview just got flushed down the toilet.
By the way, the differentiation between drug experimentation and drug user/abuser is normally delineated by department hiring criteria, not by the polygrapher.
Have a nice day.
Kona