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Polygraph and CVSA Forums => Polygraph Procedure => Topic started by: LeeLaCat on Jun 03, 2002, 11:02 AM

Title: what is there procedure?
Post by: LeeLaCat on Jun 03, 2002, 11:02 AM
I have never  taken one personally.  But a few of my aquantances have.. So I was wondering how exactly do they give one?

I have heard that  they base it on blood presure and heart rate?

what happens if you go into one so mad that both are already sky high?  It can't go up much farther!

I just would like to know how they actually give one and how they make a judgement one way or another?
Title: Re: what is there procedure?
Post by: George W. Maschke on Jun 03, 2002, 11:19 AM
Blood pressure and heart rate are indeed important indicia in the scoring of polygraph charts. You'll find a detailed description of how polygraph "tests" are administered and scored in Chapter 3 of The Lie Behind the Lie Detector (http://antipolygraph.org/pubs.shtml). (I recommend you download the PDF version; it's more detailed than the currently available HTML version.)