th, 2008 at 9:51pm:

Listen to everything he says, pay attention to the other instructors, and ask questions. Youll leave with a lot of useful information that you will utilize in the field.





What's the use of asking a polygrapher questions? All you'll get back is lies--at best. They'll say stuff like "That's a good question. But you could never understand the answer, so stop bothering me." Or "That's a good question. I'm not going to answer it, even though I know the answer, but if you keep doing research that doesn't involve asking people who know the answer, maybe you'll eventually figure it out, but hopefully not."



So, here are some questions for polygraphers:



If the polygraph's accuracy is not effected by what an examinee knows or thinks about the polygraph, why do polygraphers go to such lengths to control what examinees know and think about the polygraph?

Why don't government agencies reveal what percentage of applicants and current employees pass their polygraph exams?

Why do polygraphers flat out lie about how accurate the polygraph is? (See also first question above)

Why haven't polygraphers demonstrated their claimed ability to be able to reliably detect countermeasures?

If polygraphers really can detect countermeasures so easily, as they claim they can, why are they so worried about people learning about them?



There are some questions for you. I'd suggest this common polygrapher "answer": "It's not my job to answer your questions. Go away." Which raises yet one more question I'd like to put to you:



Why doesn't any polygrapher--even just one in the whole world--answer any of the above questions? Why isn't there just one website on the whole internet where polygraphers can point curious people to for real answers?



Note that an answer to any of the above must be both <i>true</i> and reasonably complete. Polygraphers seem to think they've answered a question if they give a straight up lie to it or (more commonly) if they give some half truth that conceals more than it reveals. They also like to pat themselves on the back if they answer the question they wish they'd been asked instead of the one that they actually were asked. I guess they figure they're doing the questioner a favor that way. I think that's how they justify a lot of what they do: we know better than anyone else so we're justified in lying to them. That's called arrogance.



So, a polygrapher answer questions to someone who doesn't have a vested pecuniary and professional interest in keeping the truth under wraps? Ha! It'll be a cold day in the place where every polygrapher belongs before that will happen. true and reasonably complete. Polygraphers seem to think they've answered a question if they give a straight up lie to it or (more commonly) if they give some half truth that conceals more than it reveals. They also like to pat themselves on the back if they answer the question they wish they'd been asked instead of the one that they actually were asked. I guess they figure they're doing the questioner a favor that way. I think that's how they justify a lot of what they do: we know better than anyone else so we're justified in lying to them. That's called arrogance.So, a polygrapher answer questions to someone who doesn't have a vested pecuniary and professional interest in keeping the truth under wraps? Ha! It'll be a cold day in the place where every polygrapher belongs before that will happen. Joe McCarthy wrote on Aug 18, 2008 at 9:51pm:What's the use of asking a polygrapher questions? All you'll get back is lies--at best. They'll say stuff like "That's a good question. But you could never understand the answer, so stop bothering me." Or "That's a good question. I'm not going to answer it, even though I know the answer, but if you keep doing research that doesn't involve asking people who know the answer, maybe you'll eventually figure it out, but hopefully not."So, here are some questions for polygraphers:There are some questions for you. I'd suggest this common polygrapher "answer": "It's not my job to answer your questions. Go away." Which raises yet one more question I'd like to put to you:Note that an answer to any of the above must be bothand reasonably complete. Polygraphers seem to think they've answered a question if they give a straight up lie to it or (more commonly) if they give some half truth that conceals more than it reveals. They also like to pat themselves on the back if they answer the question they wish they'd been asked instead of the one that they actually were asked. I guess they figure they're doing the questioner a favor that way. I think that's how they justify a lot of what they do: we know better than anyone else so we're justified in lying to them. That's called arrogance.So, a polygrapher answer questions to someone who doesn't have a vested pecuniary and professional interest in keeping the truth under wraps? Ha! It'll be a cold day in the place where every polygrapher belongs before that will happen.