LieBabyCryBaby wrote on Sep 13
th, 2007 at 12:25pm:
In my experience, there are only two reasons why someone would fail ALL of the relevant questions on a polygraph screening exam. First, they are actually lying on all of those questions, which in George's case I don't actually believe occurred. Or second, and much more likely, they [the PLCQ examinee] have made the RELEVANT questions more significant to themselves by knowing or realizing that those are the only questions of true importance in the exam.
This is exactly correct, Baby. A major theme of almost all of my posts on this forum is that simply by knowing how the PLCQ exam works that person's chances of producing accurate results suffers materially. Thus your need to keep people ignorant, which can only be accomplished by discouraging curiosity and initiative--two things that we need rather more of, I'd aver.
LieBabyCryBaby wrote on Sep 13
th, 2007 at 12:25pm:
I believe that a person's knowledge of countermeasures, and their attempts to amplify the reactions on the comparison questions can actually backfire because they make the relevant questions even more significant to themselves during the exam.
Now, you see, there you go again. This happens every time I make this point too. I present a very solid argument that mere knowledge of how the test works makes it difficult to pass and some polygraph simpleton blurts out "But... but... but
countermeasures don't work!!!!" Countermeasures, of course, don't need to work for my argument to work. At least, none of you things has refuted it yet. Maybe you can be the first?
So, Baby, do you or do you not agree with the following statement:
An examinee who knows how a probable lie control question test works is, all else being equal, less likely to produce accurate results when tested than an identical examinee who is ignorant of how the test works.
Do you or do you not agree with that statement? It's a simple question. So, yes--or no? And, please, don't trot out the old countermeasures canard.