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You employ CM on the CONTROL questions only!  If and only if there are control  questions.  They compare your reaction to the control questions and relevant questions.  If you react more to the control questions you pass.

DO NOT USE CMs ON IRRELEVANT QUESTIONS!  That is, questions like ("Is your name...?"  "Were you born in ...?"...etc.

Note:  With some test formats, you don't need to use CMs.   For example, in 2000 I took the polygraph at the NSA.  They used a format in which there were NO CONTROL QUESTIONS.  There were only relevant questions (4 counter intelligence questions), and then some filler questions ("Is your name...?", "Were you born in....?").  In that format, if you react (above a certain threshold) more on one RQ, versus the other RQs, you fail.  

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You do difficult math in your head (like counting backwards by 3 from 2317 as fast as you can).  It raises your response, unless you're a math geek, in which case it gives you a hard-on!

TC

Conquistador,

If you disclosed that you accidently took a been on your application of course you should NOT use CM on that. 

Just admit to it, and move on.

For what purpose are you taking the polygraph?  Criminal suspect?  Job applicant?  Which agency?

You DO NOT use CM on relevant questions!  If this is a LE agency, stealing would probably be a RELEVANT issue.  So admit to taking the pen, BY MISTAKE< but don't admit to anything else! 

Don't sign anything, and do not volunteer anything of a self incriminating nature concerning RELEVANT questions, NO MATTER how INSIGNIFICANT you may think it is.  Except for the pen which you've already discclosed, and they probably don't give a shit about!


TC

YIKES!!

That guy is desperate to keep the truth from being exposed.

TC

Don't people change wikis all the time? My college professor banned using them for research because they change all the time and they aren't very accurate.

I think thats one of the base rules for wikihow is that anyone is supposed to be able to change them right?

T.M. Cullen wrote on Oct 29^th, 2008 at 1:20am:


Indeed, the NSA's standby polygraph technique is the Relevant/Irrelevant one. However, most law enforcement agencies use some variant of the Control Question Test to screen applicants. One of the most commonly used probable-lie control questions involves theft from an employer. If a law enforcement applicant admits to pilfering a pen or two when asked, "Did you ever take anything from an employer?" the question will be re-phrased, "Other than what you told me, did you ever take anything from an employer?" The question is still a control question, and the examinee's denial is still expected to be less than fully truthful. And an examinee using countermeasures would still want to show a reaction to this question.

It should be borne in mind, however, that some agencies use a relevant question about major theft from an employer. For example, a relevant question reportedly used by the LAPD is, "Have you stolen more than four hundred dollars in cash or property from an employer?" If a question about theft from an employer involves theft beyond a significant dollar threshold, it's safe to assume that it is a relevant question.

T.M. Cullen wrote on Nov 6^th, 2008 at 6:44pm:


I am applying for Custody Assistant with the Los Angeles Sheriff Department and am currently waiting for my background to clear. Next I  will be applying for border Patrol are you familar with the test procedure either one employs?