Good afternoon all. I am new to the forum , but this site has been a great resource to me in other areas. I have a pre-employment polygraph soon that I am almost certain will be a control question test format. I downloaded the pdf that goes into extensive detail about these, as well as countermeasures but I have a question. It says to employ countermeasures when answering control questions, so they have a stronger reading than relevant questions. But do you employ the same countermeasures when answering the relevant questions? Or should I just answer them normally? If you don't understan what I'm talking about...it comes from pg 145 of the lie behind the lie detector. Please help! This job is very important to me and it has taken a lot of time, money and hard work to get this far...any advise is appreciated.

Don't listen to what anyone has to say. just tell the truth. that's all they want. an honest person. is that so hard???

someoneunimportant wrote on Jun 19^th, 2007 at 9:31am:


Hmm. Cute and a putz.

decisions wrote on Jun 20^th, 2007 at 7:13pm:



Hmmm. The Cute Putz has a twin.

Lethe wrote on Jun 24^th, 2007 at 10:38pm:


Good Question. I guess some of the RQ's to use would include:
"Have you ever stolen a fire truck?"
"Do you know how to hotwire a REO Speedwagon?"
"Does your brother own a REO Speedwagon?"
"Have you ever smoked weed through 100 yards of fire hose?"
"Does your brother own a very long canvass garden hose?"
"If you were dousing a marijuana fire, would you inhale?"

The obsession with p/g pre-employment examinations is as absurd
as the people who advocate its continued use. 

Used in that arena, between the years of 1994 - 2000, I found that
55% of pre-employment subjects failed - according to their charts;
but passed according to actual and detailed background checks.
So, despite the p/g result, approx 90% of the 55% 'failures' were
passed for honesty and background screening.

If there is only ONE area where polygraph should be banned, it is
in the arena of pre-employment screening.

Lethe wrote on Jul 9^th, 2007 at 6:35am:


From work undertaken by my firm. In that period we processed some 1400 candidates.
The process involved p/g, personal interview, pen/paper tests, personal background check,
employment history check, crim records check, civil debt bureau check, IRS check.

Happy ?

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Yes, and it's standard procedure in the "Control Question Test" (CQT), the most commonly employed polygraph technique.

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Probable-lie "control" question.

the alien people were very welcoming... 

so then what are questions such as is the room blue... and are examinees always supposed to lie to these???