meameame12 wrote on Aug 4
th, 2005 at 6:21am:
now im confused. why have this forum up for advice if you say to simply tell the truth? it is almost 100 percent guaranteed that if i do say i did pot, i will not get hte job.
there is simply no rationale for people on this board to panic over the truth, which leads me to think, due to the vast majority of hte posts i've found, that many are lying.
for instance, i have no problmes with quesitons over sexual behavior, child pornography, murder, rape, incest, hard drugs, espionage, vandalism, arrest records, etc. so naturally im not worried about those types of questions. why are others?
In my opinion, the information on this site is designed to educate people on the pseudo-scientific fraud that is the polygraph. Information on countermeasures is provided so that truthful people can protect themselves from a false positive.
The information is not here to help people lie about things they chose to do in the past. If there was a reasonable method of making the information available only to truthful people then that's what would be done. As it stands, in order for truthful people to access the information it must be freely available to anyone.
I'm sure there have been liars and criminals who have come to this site to find out how to "beat" the polygraph. That's too bad.
It's too bad because, to their shame and discredit, our government and many law enforcement agencies choose to rely on a "test" which can be defeated after a few minutes of studying a web site which provides instructions on how to alter your breathing pattern and/or do long division in your head.