Can someone please help me in identifying a control question. I have read the LBLD, but still need some help. Are control questions like: Are you now in Chicago? Do you sometimes watch TV? Or are those irrelevant? Do you still employ CMs on irrelevant ones? Please let me know, I gotta poly in a month. THANKS
Quote from: ???4u on Aug 15, 2002, 11:40 PM
Can someone please help me in identifying a control question. I have read the LBLD, but still need some help. Are control questions like: Are you now in Chicago? Do you sometimes watch TV? Or are those irrelevant? Do you still employ CMs on irrelevant ones? Please let me know, I gotta poly in a month. THANKS
Both questions would probably be considered "irrelevant".
"Irrelevant" questions are the "easy" questions. The answer's obvious and no one in their right mind would lie to them, such as "is your name xxx?"
"Control" questions (in the standard Control Question Test)
are questions to which you are expected to lie, and if you fail to in the pre-test part of the polygraph exam, the polygrapher will try to get to you lie to them. It is expected that most people in their right mind would lie in response to such questions.
Of course, that's just the theory.
Skeptic