SanchoPanza wrote on Oct 26
th, 2008 at 12:16am:
notguilty1 wrote on Oct 25
th, 2008 at 9:55pm:
As usual Sancho has managed to get us off track.
Notguilty1. Off track? You couldn’t find the track if you lived on the infield at Talladega.
Every time a news report of a polygraph examination doesn't turn out the way you think it should you resort to the same old causal reductionism and arrive at the fallacious conclusion that the results you don't agree with must be caused by an inherent problem with polygraph in general. Absent concrete information that these agents were somehow taught some sort of countermeasure that allowed them to pass their polygraph, not only are your conclusions premature, they fail to acknowledge more plausible explanations offered by people who know considerably more about polygraph than having failed one in the past. You know even less about how Law Enforcement operations are conducted.
Instead you act like your selective observations from reading stories similar to yours on this site coupled with an ad nauseum repetition of the same old drivel automatically grants you similar status with Dr. Mascke, TwoBlock, Sergeant, Cullen, or even Gino, who even though we disagree about polygraph, at least provide stimulating and often refreshing discourse. Hardly.
Sancho Panza
Yep!.... EVERY time, which are many many times that Polygraph shows itself to be what it is, an unproven, unreliable ( for detecting deception) pseudo-science you bet cha I point it out.
OK maybe this case is premature so, I'll give you one ( of many but I'll keep it simple ) that isn't.
Would you care to explain how Gary Ridgeway admittedly passed a lie detector simply by lying?
Perhaps the agents passed by simply lying. Gary Ridgeway did it and so have many others. Hell, I failed by telling the truth so I can't see it not happing.
Personally, I don't know how they passed as I don't know how I failed mine. Thats up to the industry you defend to explain.
Thus far Sancho you haven't done such a bang up job at it.
Again Sancho, your put downs only go to show what is expected from your profession and those who support it.
Your list of the people you attribute to "my status" is growing. I find myself in good company.