polyfraud,

I suspect that you are not being set up for failure, because if that were the case, it seems unlikely you would have been scheduled for a second session.

Regarding the questions you were asked:

Questions 1 & 2 are irrelevant questions; no physiological response is expected, and you should not have artificially produced a response when answering these questions.

I, too, am uncertain regarding the relevancy of questions 5 & 6.

Questions 3 & 7 are clearly probable lie "control" questions, and you correctly identified them as such and augmented your physiological responses when answering them.

Questions 4 & 8 are clearly relevant questions. Were you also asked a relevant question about drug use in this question series? [Note: in your post, the 8 followed by a right parenthesis got converted into a "smiley." To prevent this from happening, check the "Disable Smilies" box when you post. Because you're a registered user, you can go back and edit your message if you like.]

You may gain some additional insight regarding the rationale of the questions you were asked by keeping in mind the general rule that in probable-lie "control" question "tests," question series typically begin with two irrelevant questions followed by a "sacrifice" relevant (frequently worded along the lines, "Do you intend to answer all questions truthfully on this test?). In addition, each relevant question asked in the series will have an adjacent "control" question.

Apart from chart manipulations, remember also the behavioral countermeasures discussed in The Lie Behind the Lie Detector. Your polygrapher's subjective opinion regarding your honesty may also influence the outcome of the "test."

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Heh, it's kind of funny you ask. She asked me once if I did any kind of deep breathing exercises or yoga or some nonsense. I of course said no, i'm a slow breather naturally then she told me to breath faster than what I was doing. This is how ridiculous I think the polygraph is, if they are relying on using your breath as a measurement of truthfulness wouldn't telling me to "breath faster"
be contradictive and screw up the supposed "test"?
It was until after the first set of charts that she came back with the "countermeasures" comment. After I feigned stupidity she then made me do another set and came back with the "drug problem". I think they default on that "drug problem" answer whenever the charts don't fit their criteria and they have to retest someone. The funny thing is when I asked her what the problem was..she paused before saying it was "drugs" like she had to think of a reason.
This just cements the truth that the polygraph is nothing but bullsh*t.

I know why your test was inconclusive! "first she strapped me down".  It is extremely difficult to test a "strapped down" person.  Would you please tell me what she stapped you to, exactly where were these straps placed, were you lying down, standing, sitting? As a polygraphist I am always interested in the methods used by others.  Strapping down, according to many anti-polygraph people, seems to be a new phenomenon that is finding it's way into the procedure.  I have searched high and low to find a polygraphist who uses this method and my search has been un successful.  Could it be that this, like so much of the anti-polygraph rhetoric is being said to put fear into those who are to be tested.  I cannot blame anyone for being anti-polygraph if that was the method used, on the other hand, if this was not the case why do certain people insist on perpetuating this lie?  nuff said!   Ray L.   

    In response to Mr. Latimer's reply about being upset by polygraph victims using the term "strapped-in", I think we all know that we are actually not strapped to the chair. I'm sure that they are refering to the pnuemo tubes and arm cuff being strapped on thier body. Having been through 3 Federal L.E. polygraphs myself I must say that you certainly do feel "strapped" to the chair as you are immediately reminded should you even move the slightest bit during the examination. I vividly remember the pressure cuff being "strapped" on so tight on my arm that my whole hand went numb. I was just praying that I wouldn't flinch or move otherwise I would be reminded to stay still. I'm sure that polyphonies (examiners) would just love to be able to strap thier victims down given the opportunity to do so.

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Ray,

Since you are a "purveyor of the art" you know that regardless of what the charts say(or don't say) you tighten the pneumo tubes and inform the candidate that this is to insure that the readings are correct.
 
This is akin to being "strapped down". I suppose when you attended your "Poly U" they showed you that tightening the pneumo tubes will constrict normal chest expansion and change the way the charts read(or don't read). 

The examiner instills the fear into those who are uneducated about your "art" when they give the usual pre-interview speech about the "accuracy and dependability of the "test". You must wonder why the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department did 4800 polys last year, yet only 1600 people got hired. That equates to 3200 or so "inconclusive" or "deceptive" polys. Nuff said.

XXX
I am sorry that you find my reply to be childish.  The purpose of my reply is not to be didactic or condescending, but rather to call attention to the gross exaggeration that is being perpetuated. one  loses a certain amount of creditability when one tends to exaggerate.  I am shocked that your reply is so acrimonious and shame on you for the language tsk! tsk!   Ray L. 

False +, your conversational vehicle (no pun intended) of a car seat and accompanying seat belt is an excellent focus for the comparisons you draw.  But the comparisons go far beyond the fact that there frequently exists discomfort with the polygraph (cardio cuff) and that, as Mr. Latimer has pointed out and you have concurred with, that, as opposed to a car seat, one is not belted/bolted into a polygraph chair.  Mr. Latimer’s claim to simply correct exaggerations is QUITE DISINGENOUS though, if he does not fully illuminate the truth about the polygraph chair and the environment in which it is used.  Although as opposed to a car seat, a polygraph chair does not contain a chair restraint, the automobile passenger can remove his own restraint and disembark from the vehicle on his own accord.  With the exception of the electrodermal plates, a polygraph examinee cannot readily remove the polygraph attachments (cardio cuff/pneumo tubes) and his therefore is confined to the nearby surroundings of the polygraph chair within the time frame and pleasure of the polygraph examiner.  Furthermore, for all practical purposes the polygraph exam (in-test phase) does not end until the polygraph examiner declares it to have ended.  I suppose minor children directed by parents and kidnap victims held at gun point by kidnappers can be forced to remain in a car, but I hope Mr. Latimer understands that under normal circumstances there is no such compulsion or duress for competent and mature adults to remain in a car beyond their desire.  But the true benefit of your analogy, False +, comes after the completion of the in-test phase of polygraph, i.e., during the interrogation of an examinee found to be deceptive.  Polygraph examiners as they are taught, sometimes while the examinee is still in the chair with polygraph attachments in place, will invade the personal body space of the examinee, i.e., they will go “knee to knee” “in your face” with the examinee in an effort to effort to gain control of the ensuing conversation and elicit the desired confession, even with the knowledge that their deceptive polygraph tracing may simply be a false positive result (They are told you (they) have to “believe the charts.” (in fact, they are taught you (they) must be a true believer to be successful).  Perhaps the biggest benefit of this (our) present conversation is that this sort of thing can be exposed.  Every examinee when confronted with this last set of circumstances should (1) demand to freed from polygraph chair and polygraph attachments if a discussion about polygraph results and conclusions is to take place and (2) should very politely but very forcefully let the polygraph examiner know that the interview has reached its conclusion if the examiner is in any way shape or form accusing the examinee of deception based on the pseudo-diagnostic charade (polygraph exam) which would have just preceded their discussion/interrogation.