I'll skip all of the nonsense. This test was not the full polygraph, it was a specific one. There was the "stim test," which was somewhat funny.
Before this, of course, we reviewed all 8 questions.
From my recollection the relevant questions were
Had you ever comitted a serious crime
and
Have you hidden any serious crime from your background
The control questions were: Have you ever lied to get out of serious trouble
Have you ever falsified and official document
those are all i remember, and there were also a few irrelevant questions.
I employed counter-measures on the control questions and tried to stay calm and relaxed with regular breathing on my relevant questions.
We went through 2 charts, the examiner left the room, came back and accused me of "clearly lying about having committed a serious crime."
he said his "boss told me to just have you go home now, I clearly failed the test."
After I refuted his claims of deception, he said
he thought I was a good guy so he wanted me to tell him what was bothering me so he could pass me.
I kept on telling him I was truthful, this went back and forth for about 10 minutes and after this he told me to contact personnel in 3-4 weeks to see what I do next.
The whole thing took about an hour.
I don't know if I passed or failed the test, the examiner said I "failed" and I had a post test interrogation, but the examiner told me to call personnel in 3-4 weeks to find out my status. Can someone help me? I don't know what to do now. Before the test I prepared myself by reading "The Lie Behind The Lie Detector" and I employed countermeasures but the examiner thought I was lying, or was bluffing to try and get a confession.
Any Feedback will be grealy appreciated.
Anyone?
jasonbourne,
My experience tells me you passed, but that is just based on your version of what happened. As the polygrapher came back in on a fishing expedition and came up empty. Good going on your use of CM's as it proves again that preperations and planning beat this pseudo-science piece of crap. And they can't detect CM's ... contrary to the beliefs of our local lurking polygraphers. But only time will tell which way it goes. But I think the comment on personnel is a good sign.
Regards ....
Eosjupiter,
Thanks for the feedback and the vote of confidence. I believe that I passed but I won't know for sure until I get the notice. The whole ordeal seemed a little bit short plus there was the fact that the examiner seemed to be going easy on me as far as interrogations go. I'll keep you updated.
Quote from: jasonbourne on Aug 07, 2006, 12:10 AMEosjupiter,
Thanks for the feedback and the vote of confidence. I believe that I passed but I won't know for sure until I get the notice. The whole ordeal seemed a little bit short plus there was the fact that the examiner seemed to be going easy on me as far as interrogations go. I'll keep you updated.
jasonbourne,
I look forward to the update ... I hope its positive.
Regards ...