WRT probable sockpuppet allegations:
Few people can verify that I am not some clone of the forum administrator or whatever, so its prudent to treat all new people with no previous posted content as possible sockpuppets. However, I am on here posting this out of a sense of desire to help others be confident about passing the poly. I think the forum administrator is a small, bitter person who once failed a polygraph and let that event grow into something that is consuming his entire life.
However, the message and cause of "anti-polygraph" is sound.
I had been reading this site and the ebook before I sat my polygraph.
Lied about stealing from work, lied about past drug use, and about not lying on my application form.
No problems. I used ass squeeze, mental maths during the control questions. I "convinced" myself that I would not and could not lie, and that yes, no, yes no were all th truth.
Detached myself from the situation, smiled slightly, left my brain in a happy place. And lied and lied.
The examiner was very serious, very powerful voice and inflection, to the point of almost shouting. I just mentally left that room, and didn't let the guy intimidate me.
For the hard questions I just mentally put myself in a hammock, half closed my eyes, I put myself into a trance like state and smiled slightly, and imagined a nice cool breeze, in the shade of a palm tree, on a beach.
Took me about 30 seconds after it was over to "wake up" out of it!
Passed the test, with no indications of deception.
The whole thing is so unscientific, it has no basis in the Scientific method whatsoever.
I got away with 3 or 4 solid outright lies. Nothing terribly serious, some drug use, once stole a fridge (yeah, lol) from work, that sort of thing.
I am posting this just to tell you all to RELAX!, ignore the charlatans pretending that they are scientists, and tell them whatever lies you want.
And before anybody comes on here vilifying me, save your keystrokes.
Congratulations.. now all you have to worry about is someone finding out you lied.. and that can occur now or in the future. if you get hurt on the job or are discriminated and then you find out your are toast.. the courts say you lied you should have been hire so you have no standing to contest discrimination or termination.
Nobody knows, nobody will know. Relax, champ!
Generally I don't worry about anything, ever.
Clumsy grammar aside, your arguments are invalid.
Polygraph is not admissible in my country, anyways.