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Posted by George W. Maschke
 - Dec 24, 2004, 06:24 AM
Here are the terms generally used by the federal polygraph community to characterize outcomes:

  • No Deception Indicated (NDI) - a "passing" score. Reactions to "control" questions were significantly stronger than reactions to relevant questions. This may alternatively be called "No Significant Response" (NSR) in screening situations.
  • Deception Indicated (DI) - a "failing" score. Reactions to relevant questions were significantly stronger than reactions to "control" questions. This may alternatively be called "Significant Response" (SR) in screening situations.
  • No Opinion (NO) - reactions to relevant and "control" questions were about the same. May also be called "Inconclusive."
Posted by nunyun
 - Dec 23, 2004, 12:48 AM
sounds like an "inconclusive" result which means that they could not say one way or the other if he was showing  a reaction or not to whatever the question was.
Posted by WalkerTR
 - Dec 22, 2004, 10:07 PM
I have a poly scheduled in a few weeks.  At any rate, I was doing some research on the test and  chatting with a buddy that was in the hiring process with another agency.  He said that he took the poly and that the examiner came back and told him he had trouble with 2 questions.  He didn't know why there would be an issue.  Then he said that the department called him a week later telling him that his test came back as "no opinion" and was being scheduled for a retest.  He said that he was pretty bummed and thought that he failed the test, but this retest gave him hope.  I want my test to go over smoothly and I told him about this site to help him out.  Exactly what are the outcomes anyway?  Is his "no opinon" outcome a possible test outcome?  I thought it was, for lack of better terminology, that  you are lying or not.