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There is a better test, it's call the guilty knowledge test. Why don't you guys use it instead?
Quote from: PhilGainey on Mar 16, 2008, 01:23 AM Hi Digithead,I'm not emotional about anything. I've never taken a polygraph, I'm merely a criminal justice researcher who examines and evaluates sex offender supervision techniques. My interest in the polygraph arose from that and the bulk of research that I've read indicates to me that there is both utility (i.e. bogus pipeline) and futility (i.e. the base rate problem and low specificity) in CQT polygraph testing. I've also come to the conclusion that the futility outweighs the utility. I do, however, believe that testing grounded in cognition such as the GKT/concealed information testing has promise and would not only be utile but useful in PCSOT.
Everybody needs a day off or two, and I took mine. I was however quite surprised to see your posting here. Your position on the NAS report would appear to be one charged with emotion coupled with the best information you know.
Quote from: PhilGainey on Mar 16, 2008, 01:23 AMNot that it matters to you but a literature review is research. I would also call their efforts a meta-analysis. One needn't do statistical analyses to do meta-analysis...
However, can we both agree that since the NAS scientists DID NOT do any of their own research, can we really cotinue to call it peer review ? I think it is rather more a book report at best with bias given that their very community is subject to these very tests for their current or prior jobs.
Quote from: PhilGainey on Mar 16, 2008, 01:23 AMDespite their position, actual real studies are ongoing at DACA by your tax dollars and mine. Progress moves forward, and not the other direction, and so your collective wishing away this computer instrumentation is not consistent with the government meeting it's goals.If you actually read the report, the NAS called for more research into polygraph and lie detection but they, and I think correctly, called for the research to be performed by those without any vested interest in polygraphy. The DACA hardly qualify as a body without any vested interest in polygraphy as they make their living from it. If you think the NAS is biased, do you really believe that the DACA are unbiased?
Quote from: PhilGainey on Mar 16, 2008, 01:23 AM Again, when some new tool comes along that does it better, such sales will be made.There is a better test, it's call the guilty knowledge test. Why don't you guys use it instead?
Quote from: PhilGainey on Mar 16, 2008, 01:23 AM The world is not always like Burger King where you get to "Have it Your Way" !!!! Do I really need to repeate the false sense of entitlement thing again ?To quote the late Richard Feynman: "Reality should take precedence over public relations because Nature cannot be fooled."
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My point, is that the NAS, as a self appointed body, was NOT the peer review study it claims to be, and rather PhD Psychophysiologist researchers (Non-Polygraph People) are the proper group to have performed such research and/or peer review. NAS was Not free of bias.
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Ofcourse they, and their scientific breatheran had a vested interest in the outcome !!!! They, as a group, don't want ANY accountability as the arrogance of their PhD's makes them feel above it all. Quote from: PhilGainey on Mar 08, 2008, 07:00 PMThat Al-Qaeda members or associates have exploited information available on AntiPolygraph.org is in no way tantamount to my having "aided and abetted the enemies of the United States."
Sorry George, you CAN'T have it both ways, even the press knows that in time of war there are limits on the first amendment.
QuoteIf a nexus can be made that Al Quada used your work as a reference point, and your intent or result (despite the hollow platitudes of only trying to Help) was to hurt, cripple, maim, lessen, or effect U.S. Intelligence (National or International) then you get body slammed. I have made my position clear that you are no less than in the same catagory of the very people whom you claimed evaded U.S. Intelligence via Aldrich Ames and others, but they did so for money. Your betrayal of the U.S. Intel community is more like that of the Rosenbergs who did so as zealots for change, and they were quite properly executed for treason. By the way Treason has no statute of limitations.
QuoteGuys like you want to ban guys like me and throw out Freedom of expression, Freedom of the press, etc. Guys like me have spent a career sworn to uphold that constitution and its rights for the individual.
QuoteAs for "weakest links," I'd say that clearly one of the weakest (yet easily corrected) links in America's national security posture is our foolhardy embrace of the pseudoscience of polygraphy. We need not await the invention of a real lie detector before terminating our misplaced reliance on one that is a complete and utter fraud. In the words of Prof. Stephen E. Fienberg, who chaired the National Academy of Sciences' Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph, "National security is too important to be left to such a blunt instrument."
In every post I have taken the time to read each and every poster begins or ends with the theme we are supposed to take as foundation when they say "I Never" or "I told the Truth" or "I was branded a liar".
Why should we take as gospel that each of these applicants, or any of their small numbers, are in fact telling us that they were in fact truthful. Others certainly came in, took the test, passed, and got the job ! Same test !!!! Same Questions !!! Only the applicant changed as a variable !!!! Somebody told the truth, somebody may have lied, or otherwise not have been as competative as the other. Somebody didn't get the job ! Not everyone is going to be happy at the end of the day !!! Life goes on in a positive direction for most, except for those too immature to move forward and who stay in a rut, and some even go so far as to seek revenge and betray their country and intelligence brothers and sisters, even if that aids and assists the enemies of the United States. Being a zealot and obsessed has it's price.
QuoteNow George, with that PhD brain of yours, answer my prior question which will give you your own desired answer. Why do you site the NAS study as though it were a peer review study ? Clearly it is not !!
QuoteThe Question: Aren't Prof. Stephen E. Fienberg and others in that report THE VERY SCIENTISTS who must be tested to maintain their security clearances![]()
QuoteTHEREFORE, Obviously these pompous asses don't want to be tested at all and that we should just Truuuust Them !!! It is in reality PhD's like You, and those who suck off the breast of government who think they are above it all WHO ARE THE VERY PEOPLE we need to keep an eye on.
QuoteDidn't Wen Ho Lee plead guilty to the unauthorized distribution of nuclear weapons classified materials to the government of China ?
QuoteDidn't the evidence above and beyond the polygraph show this as well, which is why he plead to it. In reality, he should have been put against a brick wall and shot for treason, and in a better day without so many fuzzy headed liberals in place he would have.
QuoteThe Polygraph a blunt instrument ? What an outragious statement !!!! Is a car a blunt instrument ?? In reality it is the Driver you / we should really be concerned about, and in government the best and brightest are chosen for polygraph school, and their "driving" of that instrument is done according to standards for which their is quality control / superiors overseeing.
QuoteYou are obsessed with an inanimate object and have attempted to demonize the trained professionals who use it. If you really want peer review, as the government does, then have psychophysiologists do so, and not a bunch of self serving PhD's egos make a self serving statement about it. Any fair minded person would agree that they are the peer review cousin who should be consulted, and not your self serving other scientists in the NAS. NAS "IS" a straw man argument when you claim them GM, as you didn't count on them so easily being torn down as having a bias as the subjects of the polygraph for the very jobs and security clearances they hold. What other result did you expect them to say ? You and They clearly have a God Dam complex about rebelling against legimate checks and balances / authority over you.
QuoteThe docmented effectiveness to which I refer are the tests in which individuals who are, for some reason, not qualified for a particular position, but still try to acquire the job. When verified evidence surfaces that disqualifies them, the process is a success and is valuable. In other words, pre-test, in-test or post-test admissions or confessions.


THEREFORE, Obviously these pompous asses don't want to be tested at all and that we should just Truuuust Them !!! It is in reality PhD's like You, and those who suck off the breast of government who think they are above it all WHO ARE THE VERY PEOPLE we need to keep an eye on. Didn't Wen Ho Lee plead guilty to the unauthorized distribution of nuclear weapons classified materials to the government of China ? Didn't the evidence above and beyond the polygraph show this as well, which is why he plead to it. In reality, he should have been put against a brick wall and shot for treason, and in a better day without so many fuzzy headed liberals in place he would have. The Polygraph a blunt instrument ? What an outragious statement !!!! Is a car a blunt instrument ?? In reality it is the Driver you / we should really be concerned about, and in government the best and brightest are chosen for polygraph school, and their "driving" of that instrument is done according to standards for which their is quality control / superiors overseeing. You are obsessed with an inanimate object and have attempted to demonize the trained professionals who use it. If you really want peer review, as the government does, then have psychophysiologists do so, and not a bunch of self serving PhD's egos make a self serving statement about it. Any fair minded person would agree that they are the peer review cousin who should be consulted, and not your self serving other scientists in the NAS. NAS "IS" a straw man argument when you claim them GM, as you didn't count on them so easily being torn down as having a bias as the subjects of the polygraph for the very jobs and security clearances they hold. What other result did you expect them to say ? You and They clearly have a God Dam complex about rebelling against legimate checks and balances / authority over you.
. Well, maybe you're right, but I don't think so, unless of course you are correct, then you are right, but if you aren't, then you must be wrong.