EosJupiter wrote on Sep 26
th, 2007 at 11:47pm:
Wonder_Women,
Fear is a relative term, in our case its the state you need for your machine to work. Inconclusives are the worst case scenario. Eliminating and removing the choice out of the polygraphers hands. You can not dismiss or deny employment with inconclusives, hiring rules state that you must pass to be hired, failing gets you eliminated, inconclusives mean someone of consequence has to make a decision. Your culling machine becomes ineffective. You have to resolve inconclusives don't you. Multiple ones make you look bad. You won't do more than 4 tests on any one subject, as the more you do the less the adrenal reactions available. Its the Law Of Diminishing Return. And if the subject is properly conditioned to resist the F3 reactions, he can manipulate the machine to his advantage. Its thats simple. Again change the question formats, change the conditions, but again the process remains the same. And once you know an opponents game plan, defeating it is easy. I do like the avatar you picked, Marston would be proud !!
And any organization the makes you take a polygraph as a requirement of employment is not worth working for anyways. The courage is to just say no !!!
Regards ....
oh Eos, the mind is a terrible thing to waste---and yours is a good mind---thoughtful----even considerate at times----but then you spin your beanie propeller on the subject of polygraph and ----frrrrt. sigh
"Fear"-----let's talk about fear. You can tell someone that if they just control their fear with breathing and yoga that they will become a fluid and fearless public speaker. Then they get up in front of that crowd---and they are extremely nervous---regardless of how they pretend externally. You can claim your Mt Everest skills all you want behind your shield, but 99% of us humans get pretty nervous when our ass is on the line. If Johnny Carson got stage fright, than most of us will also when we are "attached" and in the "light."
4 "tests" or did you mean 4 charts? I am not a geek about type-o's, but if you are going to be a critical theorist, than we need to have a bible class on the difference in terms.
The "Law of Diminishing Return?"----what are you a real estate appraiser? (actually I liked that analogy)
On most polygraph reports right before the "Final Call" section, there is a section titled "Countermeasure Activity:" ----
The mere suspicion of countermeasure activity warrants comments and caveats in that section. Many but not all Inconclusives get such a label---especially when they present as "goofy." Now, when an examinee gets the stink of "suspected crude and/or sophisticated countermeasures" attached---it's like wearing a goose around their neck. So, your remarks about "Inconclusives", while interesting and revealing to the modality and/or industry for which you refer, in most agencies and municipalities, Inconclusives are sometimes even unfairly discriminated against. Also,if you can "flatten" your polygrams at will, in most areas (except your inexplicably tardy area) an examiner might write that he suspects pharmeceutical/pharmecological countermeasures due to flat affect. Although I doubt you have such james bond super stoicalness at your will, I suppose because I knew you in a different life that I will give you the superhuman benefit of the doubt----although I'd like to see your charts and your 95 year old examiner.
I need sleep
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