Ludovico wrote on Sep 30
th, 2007 at 12:41am:
Quote:What is my negative purpose for coming to this web site? I am not aware of any, so if you would be so kind as to let me know, I'd appreciate it.
Do you really think you are supporting good police work and community safety, by ancouraging a bunch of sex offenders to try and defeat their monitoring exams, or by helping a bunch of undesirables to try to get hired? Do you really think its working?
Is this the best form of community activism that you can think of?
I'll ask this again, since no one seems to have a valid answer for it...
If you are using a test to monitor the behavior of sex offenders and to prevent "undesirables" from getting hired, and that test can be beaten, defeated, or confounded by someone with access to the Internet, how valid can that test possibly be?
I had three different polygraph examiners tell me they knew I was lying when I knew I was telling the truth. How can any reasonable person go through that experience and not be open to the possibility that sex offenders can rape a child on Monday and pass their polygraph exam on Tuesday? Or that a police applicant with a history of carjacking, sexual assault, and ecstasy use can lie about all of that on their pre-employment polygraph and pass anyway?
In my personal experience the polygraph is not accurate. I don't think it should be used for anything of importance. As an interrogation intimidator it is certainly useful, but only if the subject believes it is capable of detecting deception.
If you are an examiner and you believe the test can be beaten by someone after surfing the web for a weekend, how exactly are you supporting community safety? Shouldn't you stop conducting pointless tests and bring it to someone's attention that the polygraph is not a valid form of monitoring sex offenders and screening applicants because it can be defeated by anyone with a computer and a modem?