A six year polygraphy course?
Your polygraph training is what was meant by the "easy way out" comment. Likely the education you are currently gathering has little to do with your decision to become an examiner. As I mentioned I understand the need to provide for one's family and one's self. Your decision to become a polygraph examiner was probably based largely on this need and your want to stay in the investigative realm. If I'm am wrong by all means correct me.
Tasercop wrote:
Quote:3 exams a day, 5 days per week.
Again correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought examer's were supposed to administer 2 a day max. If I rememberd where I read that I would quote.
Tasercop wrote:
Quote:And believe it or not, exonerating the innocent is what police examiners do most. 75% of examinees (this is not official, but what most examiners I talk to report) pass a criminal police polygraph. If you listen to most on this board, you would think we are just out to screw people, but it couldn't be farther from the truth. Private examiners report just the opposite. 75% of criminal examinations are DI. Why? Because defense attorneys tell their suspected guilty clients to take it from a private examiner. If they fail, it is privileged information. If we are the ones out to screw the innocent, why are ours 75% NDI? Makes no sense.
Would the reader be correct in concluding that there is a distinction between police and private examiner here? This sounds as if the polygraph result depends on who foots the bill.
I don't suspect many polygraph examiners approached becoming an examiner to screw people, but rather the opposite. But the fact remains that many people, myself included, have been screwed by polygraph examiners intentionally or otherwise. It is like the drunk guy that kills a family of four on the roadway. His intention was not to kill anyone, but to get home and pass out. His intention makes him no less culpable for the result.
Anyway, best wishes to you in your pursuits of study.