Hi, I have a police poly coming up in a few months and am, like others, quite scared of failing. While I have nothing of significance to hide, I'm afraid of some questions catching me off guard, or even failing while being honest. My question is, would it be safe, or even better off, to only empoloy one countermeasure? I understand there are quite a few, but I was thinking about just having a stronger response toward the control questions and nothing more. I for one know that I was a polygrapher and noticed everything was perfect I would become a bit suspicious. Would using that one countermeasure prevent me from being falsely labed as "dishonest"? Also, how hard is it to just answer the questions like a drone? Yes, no with giving minimal thought, just enough to understand the question? Thankyou
As I've said elsewhere, the research suggests that truthful people may well "fail" when they attempt countermeasures.
Some questions that have pondered is this:
How many truthful people who have failed tests actually owe their failures to CM attempts? Is the error rate for truthful CM users greater than the error rate without them (i.e., the number of false positives without manipulation of charts)?
Quote from: pacificmx45 on Jan 03, 2008, 09:21 PMAs I've said elsewhere, the research suggests that truthful people may well "fail" when they attempt countermeasures.
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As does the research also suggest, (along with ample anectodal evidence) that truthful people fail the polygraph when they don't try any countermeasures.