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Reply #15 - Mar 28th, 2014 at 8:06pm
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Quickie, tell us how polygraphy has "advanced" in the last few decades.
  
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Reply #16 - Mar 28th, 2014 at 8:50pm
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hmmm, let's see:  computerized polygraph instruments, ability to zip polygraph charts which can be emailed as an attachment;  far better and vastly more sensitive countermeasure cushion components;  built-in audio and video recording capability, no more cassette tapes needed.

The methodology is far more improved as well, but I certainly am not going to share the details of that on this site.
  
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Reply #17 - Mar 28th, 2014 at 9:00pm
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What you refer to is gadgetry enhancement not advancements in polygraphy. The truth is, there have been no advancements.
  
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Reply #18 - Mar 28th, 2014 at 9:58pm
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Gadgetry?  Really?  You sound just like the kind of person who would have called automobile seat belts "gadgetry" in the 1960s until research showed they saved more lives of occupants using them then those not wearing them.  Even then, research continued, and seat belt technology improved with the development of the shoulder harness.  Then research was started on another "gadget"- airbag technology.  

You can call it what you like, it's still advancement in any language.
  
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Reply #19 - Mar 28th, 2014 at 11:10pm
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The gadgetry of seatbelts has been enhanced, but the basic concept of "if you restrain the passenger, injuries are reduced" has not been improved upon. Your fascination with your toys distracts you from the fact that there have been no advancements in detection of deception.
  
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Reply #20 - Mar 29th, 2014 at 12:28am
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quickfix wrote on Mar 28th, 2014 at 8:50pm:
hmmm, let's see:  computerized polygraph instruments, ability to zip polygraph charts which can be emailed as an attachment;  far better and vastly more sensitive countermeasure cushion components;  built-in audio and video recording capability, no more cassette tapes needed.

The methodology is far more improved as well, but I certainly am not going to share the details of that on this site.



It is irrelevant how "improved" your "methodology" or your polygraph "instrument" may be - it is still not a "lie detector".  There is no such thing as a reaction that indicates deception!
  

I have been fighting the thugs and charlatans in the polygraph industry for forty years.  I tell about my crusade against the insidious Orwellian polygraph industry in my book FALSE CONFESSIONS - THE TRUE STORY OF DOUG WILLIAMS' CRUSADE AGAINST THE ORWELLIAN POLYGRAPH INDUSTRY.  Please visit my website POLYGRAPH.COM and follow me on TWITTER @DougWilliams_PG


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Reply #21 - Mar 29th, 2014 at 5:02pm
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quickfix wrote on Mar 28th, 2014 at 8:50pm:
hmmm, let's see:  computerized polygraph instruments, ability to zip polygraph charts which can be emailed as an attachment;  far better and vastly more sensitive countermeasure cushion components;  built-in audio and video recording capability, no more cassette tapes needed.

It's such a shame that we didn't have all this advanced lie-detection technology in 1955, when John Anthony Walker was allowed access to navy secrets, or in 1960, when David Henry Barnett was hired by the CIA, or in 1967, when Aldrich Ames was hired by the CIA, or in 1976, when Robert Hanssen was hired by the FBI, or in 1977, when William Kampiles had access to the CIA's KH-11 spy satellite manual, or in 1980, when Harold Nicholson was hired by the CIA, or in 1986, when U. S. Army warrant officer James Hall III was investigated while he had already been selling codes to East Germany and the Soviet Union for three years, or in 1987, when FBI agent Earl Pitts was providing Top Secret documents to the Soviet Union, or in 1991, when Pitts had to find a new market in Russia because his former customer had imploded, or even in 2006, when Edward Snowden was engaged by the CIA and the NSA.

But don't be completely discouraged by all those failures: we did have enough gagetry in 1983 to falsely accuse Edward Lee Howard of drug abuse, causing him to be unjustly fired and driving him into the embrace of Soviet Union recruiters where he betrayed his entire former network.
  
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Reply #22 - Mar 29th, 2014 at 7:27pm
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so quickfix, you are still here trying to have intelligent discussion with antis who don't believe computerization can be counted as an advancement.  Good luck brother!
  

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Reply #23 - Mar 29th, 2014 at 11:32pm
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pailryder wrote on Mar 29th, 2014 at 7:27pm:
you are still here trying to have intelligent discussion with antis who don't believe computerization can be counted as an advancement. 

Please tell us how computerization has made polygraphy more able to detect deception.
  
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Reply #24 - Mar 29th, 2014 at 11:33pm
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pailryder wrote on Mar 29th, 2014 at 7:27pm:

so quickfix, you are still here trying to have intelligent discussion with antis who don't believe computerization can be counted as an advancement.  Good luck brother!


A computerized Ouija board is an "advancement" over the old wooden one, but it is still unable to communicate with the spirits of the dead.  And, by the same token, a computerized "lie detector" is an "advancement" over the old analog one, but it is still unable to detect deception!

The old Ouija board, and the computerized Ouija board - the old "lie detector", and the computerized "lie detector" are ALL still just BULLSHIT!
  

I have been fighting the thugs and charlatans in the polygraph industry for forty years.  I tell about my crusade against the insidious Orwellian polygraph industry in my book FALSE CONFESSIONS - THE TRUE STORY OF DOUG WILLIAMS' CRUSADE AGAINST THE ORWELLIAN POLYGRAPH INDUSTRY.  Please visit my website POLYGRAPH.COM and follow me on TWITTER @DougWilliams_PG


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Reply #25 - Mar 30th, 2014 at 2:59am
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quickfix wrote on Mar 28th, 2014 at 8:50pm:
hmmm, let's see:  computerized polygraph instruments, ability to zip polygraph charts which can be emailed as an attachment;  far better and vastly more sensitive countermeasure cushion components;  built-in audio and video recording capability, no more cassette tapes needed.

The 2003 NAS study The polygraph and lie detection concluded in part "Computerized polygraph scoring procedures have the theoretical potential to increase the accuracy of polygraph interpretation..."

Has this potential been even partially realized since 2003? Are any polygraphers using computer algorithms or automated expert systems to interpret or score charts?

The study continues "The polygraph as currently used has extremely serious limitations for use in security screening to identify security risks and to clear valued employees. In populations with extremely low base rates of major security violations, such an application requires greater accuracy than polygraph testing achieves."

Has this greater accuracy been demonstrated since 2003? Has any polygrapher even cited a significant increase in accuracy since the damn thing was invented?

I have asked you in all seriousness whether anything in the NAS study has been refuted yet, and you can only bloviate about converting a poly chart to a zip file or by eliminating the cassette tapes. Frankly, sir, this is just more of your argument-like noise.

quickfix wrote on Mar 28th, 2014 at 8:50pm:
The methodology is far more improved as well, but I certainly am not going to share the details of that on this site.

Well I suppose we should be thankful to be spared at least that much bullshit.
  
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Reply #26 - Mar 30th, 2014 at 6:44pm
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I will try to give a serious response to your comment. Beyond having drop down menus and radio buttons which make Quickfix feel like Buzz Lightyear, computerization does nothing to enhance your ability to detect deception. Digital is not superior to analog. Analog to Digital Converters (ADC) simply sample the analog signal and convert these samples to numbers which can be stored. Computer software can then perform various mathematical manipulation of these sampled data to relieve the polygraph operator of the task of scoring the charts; the most common is a statistical approach using discriminant analysis. I suppose there could be some utililty to this if there were dozens of charts to be read as in a study, but beyond that it does nothing more than what you are already supposed to know how to do. Digitization may have made housekeeping less tedious, but it hasn't advanced your ability to detect deception one iota.
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Reply #27 - Apr 2nd, 2014 at 11:41am
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Aunty Agony wrote on Mar 30th, 2014 at 2:59am:
Are any polygraphers using computer algorithms or automated expert systems to interpret or score charts?



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The short answer to your question is yes, practically all are.  In addition to a numerical hand score, I have scored every chart I have run since 1995, almost twenty years now, with computer software.  Using software calls as a backup has alerted me to potential mistakes and most certainly has improved my accuracy.
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Reply #28 - Apr 2nd, 2014 at 4:41pm
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pailryder wrote on Apr 2nd, 2014 at 11:41am:
Aunty Agony wrote on Mar 30th, 2014 at 2:59am:
Are any polygraphers using computer algorithms or automated expert systems to interpret or score charts?



Aunty Agony

The short answer to your question is yes, practically all are.  In addition to a numerical hand score, I have scored every chart I have run since 1995, almost twenty years now, with computer software.  Using software calls as a backup has alerted me to potential mistakes and most certainly has improved my accuracy.



Accuracy?  Seriously?  What "accuracy"?  Are you trying to tell us that you can accurately detect deception - that there is a reaction that ALWAYS indicates deception?


  

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Reply #29 - Apr 2nd, 2014 at 5:55pm
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pailryder wrote on Apr 2nd, 2014 at 11:41am:
Using software calls as a backup has alerted me to potential mistakes

As I said, computerization has not advanced your ability to detect deception; it is just a crutch for your rusty chart reading skills.
  
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