Polygraph Question..?

[Dan Mangan]

Ethics in polygraph "testing" has always been a precious commodity.

Members of the American Polygraph Association will have an opportunity to make ethics a core professional value by supporting me for the office of APA president-elect.

My election platform is a simple triad of principles:

1. A bill of rights – similar in spirit to those found in the medical and mental health fields -- for polygraph test subjects, designed to elevate informed consent and avoid potential harms

2. Open-book research, including an ongoing countermeasure challenge series integral to APA seminars, designed to reveal polygraph's real-world accuracy and expose the wide variations in examiner competence

3. Equality for all APA members regarding access to political and educational opportunities, thereby reducing the inequities of a de facto caste society

APA electronic elections start tomorrow, July 3rd, and run through July 9th.

[xenonman]

Ethics in polygraph "testing" has always been a precious commodity.

Ethics in Polygraph Testing?

Sounds like a good title for one of the world's shortest books!

[Wandersmann]

Ethics in Polygraph Testing?

Sounds like a good title for one of the world's shortest books!

It's right up there with Ethics in Creating a Ponzi Scheme

[xenonman]

Ethics in Polygraph Testing?

Sounds like a good title for one of the world's shortest books!

It's right up there with Ethics in Creating a Ponzi Scheme

Or "Running the Successful Presidential Campaign" by Harold Stassen.

[xenonman]

From my perspective the set should include:

-Not asking questions regarding religious beliefs
-Not asking questions regarding sexual orientation
-Not asking questions which would turn one family member against another
-Refusing to examine someone who is not voluntarily submitting (signing a form is insufficient evidence)

Attached is the APA code of ethics

Does the IC still bug applicants being polygraphed about any past "homosexual" activity?