Mysterymeat wrote on Sep 27
th, 2007 at 8:20pm:
Sargeant,
Wake up and smell the decade here buddy! It is not the pro-poly folks who are doing the slamming here! This web site was set up to do nothing more than to try to discredit polygraph and the people who work in the field. Just look at the players:
George Maschke:
His only REAL polygraph experience is failing two of them! Now he hides behind this site in the Netherlands.
Dr. Drew Richardson:
Less than 12 polygraph exams and he is an expert?? Last time I heard, the good doctor was still standing out on Front Street with his pants down around his ankles.
Gino who?
I think I have made my point. The pro poly people are not picking the fight-they are just fighting back.
Regards
Feel free to add me to that field.
I am now a ten-year (plus) veteran police sergeant with an unblemished record of integrity and professionalism.
More than ten years ago, I was a police applicant who couldn't figure out why I kept failing pre-employment polygraphs even though I was being completely truthful.
You and the other polygraph supporters can say what they want. I know from experience with three different examiners at three different companies/agencies that it is all bullshit. All three of them looked me right in the eye and told me they knew I was lying when I knew I was telling the absolute truth.
Oddly enough, all three of them told me I was lying about something different. It seems logical that if I had an issue with one particular topic or subject that particular item would have shown up on all three polygraphs that I failed, and it would have showed up on the polygraph I passed. If I kept failing because of DUI questions, for example, maybe it would make sense that I had some sort of issue with DUI's or with drinking and that's why I was failing. But the fact that each time it was a different issue makes it very difficult indeed for me to believe the whole test was nothing more than a crap shoot, wherein the examiner would pick out a topic he or she
guessed I might have been lying or holding back information on.
If the polygraph was accurate I would have passed, because I was telling the truth. I wasn't using countermeasures, and in fact didn't even know countermeasures existed.
The information on this site makes sense to me. Given my own personal experience, I do not believe the polygraph is accurate at all with regards to non-specific issue pre-employment screening. In fact, it is worse than worthless because it eliminates otherwise outstanding candidates (like me) with no due process or recourse.
As far as the "help" this site provides to sex offenders, I will say again that if anyone is using a test to monitor the behavior of sex offenders, and that test can be beaten or confounded by anyone with access to the Internet, how could that test possibly be valid?
One more thing...
George did not invent the material on this web site; he merely collected it from freely available sources. The pro-polygraph community that wishes to crucify George because he "helps child molestors" should try to remember that.