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If this is true, then please explain how methodologies have changed such that it doesn't matter what the examinee knows. Since it doesn't matter, you shouldn't have any reluctance to explain this changed procedure of which you speak. What is the name of this new methodology, how does it differ from standard CQT methodology, what polygraph schools are teaching it, and where can we find documentation of it?
Also, if, as you say, polygraphers no longer care what examinees know about polygraphy, why do they continue to ask about this during the "pre-test" phase?
George, I'm sorry. Respectfully, I will not go into any details regarding methods. The only thing I will say (not to sound "coy"), but it seems to me this whole poly-anti-poly situation has become a bit of a chess game. For years, polygraph examiners operated effectively in a certain fashion. Then a group of people, some with legitimate complaints, some definately not, started using the intenet to blindly attack how we do our job. Worse, they started telling others to do things that the very recipients of the "advice" didn't even know for sure what they were doing, or why (for proof, look at many of the highly confused postings on this site).
Obviously we have since adjusted our methods (would'nt you?). So as in a game of chess, now that the "anti" group has made a move, the polygraph community has countered with a number of procedural changes (not all, not yet, but that is what continuing education is all about).
As in urinalysis screening, which based on information primarily available on the internet, watches it's examinees more closely now and checks for the presence of certain altering substances, the polygraph community has also shifted and changed procedures.
Therefore, the reason I do not answer your questions outright should be easy to understand. Would you ask the urinalysis companies to post on a site like this one, which altering substances they look for, or which new illegal drugs they test for that matter?
As for why we inquire in the pre-test interview about knowledge or research into polygraph: I don't know about other examiners, but I ask the question because if the examinee answers they have researched (especailly if they relate they have visited sites like this one), I will then implore them to please not do anything stupid, for as soon as I see it, the test (and their job application/pre-trial agreement/probation) is over.
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