Paradiddle, you're trying to shift the topic to countermeasures. Are you guys specifically trained to do that? Or do you just do so because you are only trained to deal with questions based on countermeasures?
Anyway, I think you're still trying to have it both ways. But I'm going to skip over much of what you've said because I think I can cut the gordian knot with a single challenge to you. Now, let us recall the original question that this thread was designed to seek the answer to:
Is an examinee who knows how a probable lie control question test works, all else being equal, less likely to produce accurate results when tested than an identical examinee who is ignorant of how the test works?
You keep answering "no, no, no" but then go on to say stuff which seems to contradict that denial. But I will give you an excellent chance to demonstrate the truth of what you claim. Responding to this opportunity won't even take much of your time, it will be quite simple. All you need to do is this: give us a list of five of your best control questions. If, as you claim, knowing what those questions are doesn't decrease accuracy, I see no reason for you to decline this request. If there is some other reason why you can't share them (they're under copyright, perhaps?) then you are invited to share that reason with us.
As you said previously:
Paradiddle wrote on Sep 24
th, 2007 at 6:43pm:
[It is incorrect that] an individual must lie (or be lying)on control questions in order for the CQT to be successful. Enough with this fable already. A subject need only have a greater orienting response to controls via nebulous doubts, uncertainty or any other striking response.
It seems to me that if you know you're supposed to lie and that you will indeed be maneuvered until you finally relent and tell a lie, that it would be difficult to form an intent to deceive or to be sufficiently anxious about your answer. Thus it seems important that the subject not know which questions are controls and which questions are relevant in order that his or her physiological reactions be as natural as possible. Also, the length to which polygraphers go in order to trick their subjects about the control questions seems to belie the claim that knowing what they are wouldn't effect the test.
So, Paradiddle, what are some of the cool control questions that you use?
Or will you abandon this farce and simply admit that a subject who knows the control questions is less likely to produce an accurate chart, even without any countermeasures attempts?