I took a polygraph a couple weeks ago for a PD and I studied 
Dougs manual for about a month. I went in the polygraph with confidence. after I started the test though I started getting real nervous I felt like I couldnt breathe I was worrying about thinking too much about petty things..I was sweating. I was worried about the pad they made sit on... worried about getting caught using CM's. after we tested 5 times she just said thank you and unhooked me acting very distant and not looking at me in the eyes....... when earlier she was very friendly almost flirty. I took this as a bad sign. I asked her if I passed and she said "ILL have to chart it and see"  so on the way home I was assuring myself that I did all the countermeasures right and then it hit me I made a critical mistake I screwed up with knownlies and irrelevants, I did this wierd off the wall reactions that Doug said not to do several times in his manual. I wont describe what I did wrong so that you guys wont accuse me of being a polygrapher. but I did screw up. I thought for sur I was done. I lost countless hours of sleep over this.my dream job was over, I paniced and screwed up. anyways a couple days later I emaile Doug and told him what I did and hetold me I should be OK but I did indeed do It wrong. Then I started reading this sight and man this sight can be very discouraging and helpful its hard to tell whats accuarate or not and noe gives a follow up on what their results were. I talked to my background investigator today 3 weeks later..... I PASSED!!!!!!!!!. I just wanted to wite this to encourage people who leave with a bad feelig. THANK YOU

polyfool wrote on Jul 30^th, 2005 at 2:05am:

I was thinking the same thing…

Maybe it is just his atrocious spelling, sentence structure, and grammar, but something about his story seems odd.

Would it be possible for a polygraph examiner to make up the whole thing just to provide that one bit of misinformation about it being okay to ask the examiner if you passed?  Or am I being paranoid?

You guys confirmed that you are in FACT paranoid losers who have nothing better to do than hang out on a "polygraph forum site" and criticize every imperfection you can find.So what every word isnt spelled right and there isnt a comma or period everywhere there is supposed to be. Gimme a break!! let me guess your a single, pimply, faced, overweight, lazy,pervert, social reject, who hangs out on the Internet 8 hours a day. Why would you spend so much time on a polygraph site. there is alot more in life than being the "senior  user" that just proves you have nothing in your life and you have to criticize peoples lives and for gods sakes their grammer.Get a girlfriend or something. get off this site and go get a life. get a grip on reality, not everyone is a polygrapher out to get you or trick you. I would bet a lot of the polygraphers could care less about putting doubt in everyones mind, by pretending to be someone on this site. I bet they have familys they care about and have lives outside the pathetic world of polygraphs......................... TO ALL THE PEOPLE OUT THERE SEEKING ADVICE OR REASSURANCE. I shared my story to show that I didnt do the test perfect. According to these polygraph geeks  I screwed up miserably and should have been torched on the stake for my screw ups. But bottom line is I passed with flying colors. So take advice from this site with a grain of salt and just stick to the manuals from this site or Doug Williams and just do what it says and TELL THE TRUTH and youll be fine. alot of the people(not all of them) on this site who are "senior users" are completly lost and not intouch with reality and have nothing better to do thanpoke holes in everything they see.

JUST FOR THOUGHT:

Lets say I were a polygrapher, what would I gain by posting a testimony on the forum backing up the manuals. you guys say because I did it wrong and still passed....... but I was the first to say I did it wrong. Basically I was saying even though I screwed up, I still passed, giving "the manuals" even more merit. that the polygraph is flawed to the point that it doesnt take absolute perfection to pass it.there is a little buffer zone. I purposely left out exact details of my mistakes so that you wouldnt accuse me of being a liar like you do to so many people on this site. So my question to anyone is why would a polygher get on this site and back up the manuals if we were trying to put doubt in peoples minds hoping that one of those people would fall victim in my office because of a complicated scheme I tried to pull on some random forum site.......PLEASE!!!. it just doesnt make any sense. If i were a actual polygrapher I would be straight up with that fact. I would not be afraid to do so. I am telling all of you the truth. althought one of the reasons it is hard to trust anyone on this site is because the main topic is basically telling people how to lie. I know that the polygraph is not a lie detector and that alot of people fail by telling the truth, that is my orginal reason for buying the manual. yeah, if I did more research I couldve got it for free from this site, but unfortunetly I am imperfect........................ I was a little harsh and foolish on my rebuttle, and that wasnt the best course of action to take. But I was extremely agrivated being accused of being a liar and be ridiculed about minor typing and spelling mistakes, there is no reason to criticise that stuff, there are only a few reasons people do that. the motives were quite obvious. 
    Aparently you guys like this site, so dont polute and discredit it by putting down everyone that says something you dont agree with right away. be a little more open minded and dont be so quick to hammer people. cause pretty soon this site will lose its purpose and this site could do everyone a great service.