sackett wrote on May 16
th, 2008 at 9:09pm:
TheKaisho,
your indignation is understandable. But as your question presents itself my response is this. With ignorance and indifference to the multitude of variables possible (as you insisted), there should not be a difference in the results of two perfectly equal and balanced tests.
Bias, as suggested by cat is certainly a possibility, but there are hundreds of others; however, it is a variable that you have insisted I ignore. For that reason, I nor anyone (with any true knowledge of polygraph) would be able to explain the dichotomy.
Sackett
Kaisho,
Fortunatly we have another member of the "initiated and soon to be informed club" with us. Welcome. Unfortunatly for you though you had to suffer being accused of a crime you didn't commit.
You posed a very good question to Sackett, who fancies himself as the "house expert" on Polygraph.At this point I don't know if he is or not you be the judge from his posts.
But you see Sackett does not have a good answer to your question because the truthfull answer does not serve his cause, so he is left with no other tool but to put down, critisze and demean anyone who oppses his "psydo-scince" in an attempt to discount you as a lier who is just whinning.
The fact is that you were given 2 equal Polygraph tests and got 2 entirely different results. I am not surprized!
This is the acual reliabilty of Polygraph, pretty much the toss of a coin. Sackett knows this. He has often gone on about the importance of Polygraph and how there are so many "accurate" charts and that one cannot for the most part fool the machine. He has often been know to contradict his own logic and does so again with you.
If the Polygraph is, as they claim 95-98% accurate then how can examiner bias possibly alter the results!
I was given a Polygraph when I was accused of a crime and failed in spite of telling the FULL truth.
I like you was looking for some explaination of how this could happen and once I discovered what was going on with Polygraphs I decided to stay on here and help eliminate Poly's.
Because they DON"T work.