sackett wrote on Apr 11
th, 2008 at 4:00am:
If you divuldge all, you leave no reason or basis for physiological reaction and WILL pass.
You are a deluded fool if you truly believe that. There are numerous reasons why a truthful person might well react more strongly when answering the relevant questions than when answering the "control" questions, perhaps chief among them fear of the consequences of not being believed. And perversely, the person who "divulges all" when answering the control questions (his or her answers to which are secretly
expected to be less than completely truthful), and as a consequence feels less anxiety when answering them, is more likely to wrongly fail this invalid test than the person who answers the control questions deceptively and then fears his deception being detected.
Examples of people who told the truth on their polygraph examinations, and were nonetheless wrongly branded as liars, are available here:
https://antipolygraph.org/statements.shtml Quote:One thing I must clarify. Deception includes not only what you say, but what you do not say, or what you hide, or minimize or rationalize. This is, no doubt, the reasons for many so called, "false positives" reported on this board.
Sounds like
you are trying to rationalize away false positives and put the blame on the victims. The questions asked during the in-test phase of the polygraph examination are all presented, discussed, and reviewed during the pre-test phase. Although the control questions may be deliberately left ambiguous, the relevant questions should be quite clear. So the examinee's yes-or-no answers to the relevant questions are either true or false.