also known as the 40-pound
'polygraph-academy-in-a box'!
(index text and
support materials of fundamental TOPICS, KEY POINTS, and DATA --and much, much more!-- for polygraph
classrooms, workshops, self-teaching, seminars, and
agencies)
THE ULTIMATE LIE-DETECTION PRIMER and START OR IMPROVE A POLYGRAPH
BUSINESS NOW GUIDE and STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUMENT OPERATION
GUIDES
compiled & written by John Grogan Polygraph
Instructor/Polygraph Examiner
NOTE: before you get to the 61-page
Table Of Contents below, you will find nearly thirty pages of information
that many traditional polygraph schools and organizations (that the schools
PUSH you to join) do NOT want you to know, as it
exposes their faults, mistakes, and in some cases: their fraudulent
activity. (shared with you to help you decide this: do I need
someone to read to me all day, or can I learn at my own
pace?!)
It is sad that some of the information
below needs to be posted. However, as traditional polygraph schools and
associations will try to insist that you can only learn about polygraph from
one of their own member sources, you need to see the 'real
picture'!
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details and for the newest version of this comprehensive package
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Updated for 2008:
Learn why Federal polygraph examiners are said to be the best:
This
updated version now also includes many 'tips', 'notes', 'variations', and
training materials currently being used & taught at DACA (Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment), the US
Government's 10-week polygraph school) on many different
lie-detection topics.
Our staff recently spent a month reviewing all
materials, notes, and hand-outs of the current DACA polygraph program, and
we updated our materials with that knowledge!
DACA is where FBI & CIA
polygraphers, military polygraphers, and about 20 other Federal
agencies get all of their polygraph training.
Greatly differing from
that taught by private polygraph academies, DACA also oversees
extensive reasearch designed to improve the accuracy of polygraph
examination results. New techniques and data developed here seems to
sometimes never 'trickle down' to the civilian polygraph
academies!
Learn what Federal examiners know: at no additional cost to
you, this 2008 package includes more than a dozen training material
volumes used by the Federal polygraph academy!
For
example: Materials from some schools still tell that certain
breathing patterns indicate LYING, while newest DACA research shows that
those same breathing patterns do NOT indicate deception.
OUCH- this could be causing some examinees to be falsely
failed!
(note: until recently, DACA was known as
'DoD-PI', Department of Defense Polygraph Institute)- -
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An excellent avocational situation: "av·o·ca·tion (av'O-kAshun); noun: An activity taken up in
addition to one's regular work or profession". Most
lie-detection is done by examiners around their regular
occupation!
For both conventional (analog) and
computerized polygraph instruments.
Condenses
the fundamental topics, key points, and data of a typical full-term polygraph
academy --and far, far more!-- into a
primer-plus package to study at your own schedule.
Referred to as "like a polygraph academy in a
box"!
Most colored-ink text pages are
printed with colors on bright-white inkjet sheet paper.
Includes the current trends, techniques, and specialties of
private and government polygraph examiners nationwide.
Is the
actual 40-pound package used by some polygraph
classes as their complete foundation.
Includes interviews and
past technical input from every polygraph manufacturer!
Written and compiled by a polygraph instructor/examiner who has
current (2006/2007 models) computerized polygraph instruments from ALL FOUR
polygraph manufacturers, and several analog instruments from BOTH
manufacturers!
We are NOT a 'school' or a
'diploma mill'; you are learning directly from polygraph examiners who
have actually earned a living in the private practice of this
profession.
8 X 10 color photographs printed on
high-resolution photo-paper stock. Many full-color 'screenshots', as if the
polygraph was right in front of you.
Follow this comprehensive
package with practice and continuing education to become a competent
examiner (this is what all polygraph training sources
say!).
So thorough and well-rounded that a troubled
California polygraph academy recently secretly obtained a package via a
'decoy' purchase!
Which of the four brands of computerized polygraph
instruments is the one to buy?! This package give you an advance-look
at all of them, so you can be knowledgeable BEFORE you invest.
Lease a new computerized polygraph instrument; then buy it for $1 at the
end of the lease!
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Not all polygraph
schools are equal:
Some schools secretly get a $1000 commission
each time a student buys a certain brand of polygraph instrument, so they
will not be introducing you to the other brands! Some might just 'shame' or
'push' a student into returning his/her new and perfectly-good computerized
instrument and then to buy one that the school gets that large commission
on.
Other brands might have better features; others offer student
discounts and financing.
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Ouch!
Fall 2007: Polygraph Association Report & Investigation determines
that their own member, a school approved by them, is committing
fraudulent activity and is in violation.
(clipped directly from the XXX
Inspector's report, word-for-word, no word changes made. This came after
anonymous complaints, a surveillance, and an XXX surprise site inspection of
records).
"Inspector's Conclusion:
Under Director XXX
XXXX, XXXXXXX Polygraph Academy knowingly and
intentionally misrepresented thir current school's training schedule
to purport to comply with XXX and possibly California educational
standards, while teaching an abbreviated daily schedule.
Had the
school continued on the abbreviated schedule, the course would have been
approximately 100 hours short.
After a thorough
investigation, this chairman of the Educational Accreditation Committee makes
the following findings:
First: XXXXXXX
Polygraph Academy is in clear violation of XXX
accreditation regulations governing accurately scheduling and reporting
school training schedule. All records indicate the school was starting at
08:00AM and ending daily at 5:00 PM. These records do not
accurately reflect the school’s training schedule.
Secondly: XXXXXXX Polygraph Academy is in
clear violation of XXX accredited training attendance requirements in
that the students were not receiving required time limits of
for basic polygraph course instruction.
Third: Most seriously, this inspector finds that
the printed syllabus clearly misrepresents the actual
schedule to the detriment of the students and professional
training, this inspector believes that a fraud
has been perpetuated on those relying on the accuracy of the school’s
records and representations.
Representing that the XXXXXX Polygraph Academy follows and adheres to XXX
standards of basic polygraph training is misleading and
untrue.
Fourth: Regarding the
statement alleged to have been made by personnel associated with the XXXXXXX
Polygraph Academy, “if you don’t tell (XXX), we won’t either”. In a frank
discussion with PI XXXXX, he states that through some discussion with the
students, a statement in some way similar to the one above may have been
made but according to him, it was not meant in context as it now sounds out
of context. This inspector finds that in or out of context, the statement
was inappropriate if it in any way it referred to XXX oversight
authority."
"It is apparent that
you put a lot of thought and time into its development. Thank you. I would
certainly recommend this product for anyone starting out in the Polygraph
Industry. And an experienced examiner could benefit too, with the great
deal of information on the business aspects of polygraphy. The extensive
operational info you have on all the polygraph manufacturers will allow an
experienced examiner to switch instruments in an emergency. You have
included all of the Computerized Scoring Systems and their operational
protocols; I hope that you pass my thoughts on to students and other
examiners".
Michael Hodge, POLYGRAPH EXAMINER, Forensic
Credibility Assessments, www.ForensicExamination.info, Maryland
Learn how you can have a new computerized polygraph
instrument in your hands in 24 hours!
Developed with many
years of research; continually improved; also includes topics that many
polygraph schools lack.
We know of schools/trainers that CHANGED their
curriculum after reading the 61-page index (table of contents)
below!
We have copies of their OLD websites, etc, and can show the
dates they were changed!
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Not all polygraph schools are
equal:
Recently, we completely reviewed a set of every hand-out,
guide, study-sheet, notes, etc, --virtually the complete & entire
curriculum-- from a recent class of a respected full-term 'approved by an
association' polygraph academy; OUCH- the quality
was terrible.
Other than pieces provided by visitors or 'guest
instructors', it was mostly hundreds of pages of dull, black-on-white
photocopies, many off-centered and/or originally printed using
an outdated typewriter instead of modern fonts and printers. Hard to read;
tiny print; boring and 'hard on the eyes'. Some were dated more than 25 years
ago. And NOTHING regarding the 'business end' of polygraphy.
The
depressing lack of color and/or photographs made for a far-less enjoyable
learning situation, and is far-less likely to ever be seriously re-read in
the future. We learn 'visually', and those materials were sub-standard for a
modern learning environment.
Poor materials make for useless later
review; perhaps this is why so many of their students need to later pay
this school for a 'refresher course'.
" I learned more from
this package than I did by my spending 8 weeks at a $5000 polygraph
academy. With what I know now, all thanks to this package, I wasted 8
weeks of my life and was ripped off by attending that academy. Your
description (these pages) really is accurate."
Lisa Javoric,
POLYGRAPH EXAMINER, LLJ Polygraph, www.LLJpolygraph.com,
California
1) 'Preceptor': learning while
working under a polygraph examiner. the good- it is
'fun'. the bad- unless it is with a
long-experienced, high-volume examiner, you will never learn
enough.
2. Attending an 8-to-10-week school. the good-
structured. the bad- see the many secrets revealed on these
pages.
3. Learn at your own pace, at home or office, with
PolygraphAcademy.com. the good- learn polygraph basics,
business, and advanced. the bad- none!
Fully independent, so you receive accurate &
unbiased data regarding the use of, and purchase from, the
several polygraph manufacturers. Their literature is
supplied.
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The 'Phonies & Hypocrites Club':
Although their
website claims '. . education of the polygraph community . . ', the truth
was shown when a small polygraph organization recently offered a 2-day
training seminar.
The state in which this group is based, which is
also where the seminar was held, has about a half-dozen polygraph training
schools. Graduates of all of these schools are serving the public
today.
Only graduates of two of those six polygraph schools were
allowed to attend the 2-day seminar; graduates from the other schools were
not allowed.
Not exactly a 'brotherhood' or 'dedication to improving the
profession'!
If the group had its own telephone number, (it doesn't;
it is far too small and inactive to need one) perhaps we could call them and
help them correct the error.
Note: this same group 'Certifies' its
members as long as they attend just 12 hours of polygraph education per
year-- BUT it requires that these 12 hours include attending (and paying
for) this group's own yearly 2-day seminar: or no
'Certification'!
Such self-serving requirements are shameful, but
the group would be forgotten without them.
Such disgusting 'politics'
have no part in a profession.
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retire and start a private polygraph practice? Other polygraphers in your
area do not want you (you are competing for the same clients they
are), so they will not be of much help; we can help make the transition
smoother: --needed techniques you are not aware of --'secrets' to getting
government contracts --how to get clients --samples of private-sector exam
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the public --low-cost advertising methods that produce results --and much
more!
Another lie-detection school telling
lies: One 'NOT approved by a polygraph organization' school continially
tells potential students that "We can sponsor you to join that association"
when they know that their graduates are continually denied
membership!
Posted recently on a
polygraph discussion group:
"We knew this is how XXX (now often called
the 'Amateur Polygraph Association' because of the continual fiascos)
would be handling it. Instead of finishing this with professionalism, XXX
would lose thousands of dollars this year if they removed their approval of
this school thus losing future XXX member dues from XXXXXX students, so no
punishment.
XXX has been increasingly worthless for over a decade
now. Their 'approved schools' are often of lesser-quality than schools
who choose not to involve XXX."
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The 1980s were long ago; so why do most polygraph
schools still teach the same as then?
Are you
planning to attend a polygraph academy soon? This package will put you WAY
ahead of the other students! Or, already graduated? See the 61-page
index (table of contents) below to see what you didn't
learn!
Why were two polygraph academies
recently ordered to refund THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to their
students?!
Includes many 'tips', 'tricks', and
special advice that even most long-time polygraphers --and polygraph
'instructors'-- don't know!
From a published report in a legal magazine, written by
a polygraph examiner with 40 years experience, who taught at the US
Government polygraph academy and who now works with polygraph licensing
bureaus and polygraph schools (and he has been a full-member of (XXX) for more than 30 years):
"The XXXXXXX Polygraph Association (XXX) in all appearance should be the watchdog of the
industry, but it is no more than a trade association with minimal
standards as to what a polygraph school should teach. The XXX scratches the surface with school inspections and student
review. As a matter of fact, the XXX was
denied authority by the Department of Education for academically
accrediting polygraph schools, therefore,
the XXX possesses little or no authority
to endorse a post-secondary educational
institution".
Why have so many
polygraph 'instructors' NEVER operated a successful polygraph agency
of their own?! If they never supported their family by obtaining and
satisying polygraph clients, how in the world can they teach someone else
to?! The truth is, almost every polygraph examiner you will ever meet has
NOT ever paid his/her bills with a 'polygraph business': instead, he/she
either has a 'real' job, a pension, or a working spouse! Why? The work IS
there and available-- you just need to direct it to YOU.
Here's a scary fact: most examiners who claim to be 'Certified'
get & keep that title through one small group that requires only that
every year they have 12 hours of education, WITH NO TEST
GIVEN;
Yes, that's only one hour per month, with no testing or
scoring, in a high-tech profession that has continual changes &
improvements!
Sadly, in an attempt to improve the quality of
examiners, one nationwide polygraph organization has suggested raising it to
15!
If Required Continuing Education is a primary difference
between a 'trade' and a 'profession', then these numbers are a
disgrace.
Experienced, and want to do
contract work for law-enforcement agencies? All typical form letters, tips,
and questionaires used for pre-employment testing are included; no need to
'reinvent the wheel'! Many documents and instructions are from major
law-enforcement agencies. In fact, this section has doubled in size since
the last major update.
"After nearly 20 years of
Military Intelligence as analyst, law enforcement, criminal & insurance
fraud investigations, as well as a criminal justice and psychology
background, . . . . . . .I studied the available curriculum at 'so-called
expert' polygraph schools, and realized that their curriculum content was
somewhat weak. . ..
I found PolygraphAcademy.com. Needless to say,
there was literally no comparison in curriculum, personal instruction,
training, and of course the cost. The depth and level of knowledge, including
both military and federal polygraph techniques was second to none. As
such, I jumped on it. Taking the knowledge from PolygraphAcademy.com
afforded me the opportunity to start generating an income much sooner, as
well as affording me the ability to obtain the instrument. After the
learning, I realized you're not just 'thrown to the wolves' but can remain in
a professional relationship with John Grogan, who has more experience in this
industry than most examiners and has always made himself readily available to
myself.
Clearly, anyone learning from the comprehensive package will
enter the polygraph profession more knowledgeable, better trained and
prepared than by any school. Period. Needless to say, I obviously and highly
recommend PolygraphAcademy.com to anyone desiring to get into this lucrative
and honorable career field".
Bob Korter, POLYGRAPH EXAMINER,
Vancouver Polygraph, www.VancouverPolygraph.com,
Washington
Examiners are ethically required to not
participate in any exam that they have either an interest in or a
conflict-of-interest in.
During discovery in a civil trial, it was
learned that the polygraph testing used in the defense of the management
personnel being sued was conducted by an examiner who was the cousin of the
management personnel tested.
Despite the report saying that management
was truthful, the hidden-but-discovered relationship killed all
credibility.
The other side used a polygraph examiner with no improper
relationship.
The other side won.
NOTE: The offending examiner
had graduated from an 'approved by an association' polygraph school a year
before.
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Not all polygraph
schools are equal:
A sad 'secret'-
Many good polygraph examiners
write terrible reports.
As a director who approves examiners to
receive referrals for polygraph examinations from the nationwide
polygraph referral network Polygraph Examiners Of
America (www.peoa.US), I am required to review a sample report from
every member before they can receive a referral.
Some excellent examiners
are found to be producing a final work product, their written report, that is
so poor that it lessens the value of their work. These reports, read later
by other persons, do not reflect the skill of the examiner. Instead, some
wrongly look like amateurs.
Interviewing many polygraph
academy graduates revealed a common statement: "In school, we didn't spend
much time on writing reports". And some schools spent NO time on report
writing!
When a completed examination is later being discussed, you
are not there: your report is standing there for you. A crummy report
could mean that your client wasted the money.
Included in this 40-pounder
are enough sample reports to assist any examiner in writing respectable
examination reports.
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Most pages inserted in
clear plastic sleeves. This comprehensive package is assembled as
'heavy-duty' as can possibly be, as to allow years of review.
Like having a 'best friend' in the polygraph business who will
share ALL of the industry information with you!
Nearly 10 pounds heavier than the last major update (we don't
waste resources, so imagine how much information is contained in
that extra ten pounds of material; the new index (table of contents) alone
is 15 pages longer!)
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Not all
polygraph schools are equal:
Again, we recently completely reviewed a
set of every hand-out, guide, study-sheet, notes, etc, --virtually the
complete & entire curriculum-- from a recent class of ANOTHER respected
full-term 'but NOT approved by a polygraph organization' polygraph
academy.
Far better than it's 'approved by a polygraph organization'
competitor!
Yet, it still could be greatly improved, and NOTHING about
operating a polygraph BUSINESS.
(To be fair, most schools are NOT going
to teach any polygraph 'business'; they are there to prepare you to work FOR
a polygraph examiner).
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We buy the teaching materials
from polygraph schools that went out of business. Sometimes we trade such
items with operating schools. Usually, they are outdated or worth
little; if we find a 'gem', we include it for you!
Learn why one brand of computerized polygraph instrument is such
a better choice to buy than all of the others.
Included are ‘scripts’ for using the common polygraph examination
techniques, and step-by-step initial instructions for all FOUR
different computerized polygraph instruments.
Used to guide the popular 'Polygraph Fundamentals Workshop'
seminars.
Just wondering what the
difference is: Why would a polygraph organization 'approve' a 2-week
course in South America, but require FOUR-TIMES that when it is done in the
US?!
Perhaps why the website of a
'bigger' old polygraph organization had its 'Contact A Member' section down
the first half of 2007:
1) While that group had been claiming to have
nearly 3000 members, it was revealed by counting each member in that
portion of the website, state-by-state, every state, that it added up to
be far closer to 500! Where are all the others?!
2) Nearly 1/3 of
the contact e-mail addresses were not valid!
Removing the 'Contact A
Member' section of their website has likely cost their dues-paying members
many paid examinations.
Update 10/2007: this
section of the website has been back up for several months: a fresh count
adds up to about 400, including from all countries worldwide and from both
private and government, and including full and associate
members! Again: where are all the other 'thousands of
members'?!
Restricted
Availability: also discussed are various 'countermeasures', methods used
to attempt to falsely pass a polygraph examination. This includes the two
nearly undetectable methods, which if not spotted could allow a lying person
to be scored as truthful (undercover government agents know these two secret
techniques, to try if being polygraphed by those who they have
infiltrated; some sex criminals share them with each other while in
prison).
Why did the top polygraph examiner in a
major police department's polygraph unit get demoted and lose his supervisor
position? Complaints from examinees and from his own
employees!
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Not all polygraph schools are equal:
Many
polygraph academy graduates do not know anything about 'countermeasures'
because their 'instructor' told them that there is "no such thing as a
countermeasure- there are no ways to even try to alter a polygraph's
results". He teaches this despite the strong industry training
and seminars teaching the many cheat-methods being
used.
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Note: this is NOT a
quickie 'click-on-print-and-out-comes-a-manual'. This is a FORTY POUND, hand-assembled primer-plus package of
hundreds of pages of data, hand-outs, color photographs, lesson
guides, government polygraph training data, scripts, report samples,and
more.
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Not all
polygraph schools are equal:
Recently, complaints to a state
school-licensing bureau about another high-volume polygraph academy
produced yells of 'Fraud!'.
This school had been
advertising that they were providing students with even more hours of
training than a polygraph organization's recommended guideline polygraph
training hours.
This school had submitted a very specific curriculum
of polygraph training to the state, including exactly how many hours would
be spent on each topic. The state approved this polygraph class, 'to be
taught AS SUBMITTED & APPROVED'.
Instead, it was alleged that: --
most classroom materials used were VERY poor -- -- there were giving less
than 1/3 the promised hours -- -- a past instructor had been told by the
school owner: "Don't teach them so much, or they will become our competitors"
-- -- most 'graduates' there never again touched a polygraph -- -- the
current 'instructor' had little real-world polygraph experience -- --a past
guest-instructor had been told by the school owner: "Even though the students
were only here for a few hours, write 8am to 5pm next to each of their names"
(he refused)-- -- school staff openly slandered competitors and past students
--
As most students there were injured in their past jobs, and
attended here only due to the recommendation of their Workers Compensation
Vocational Rehabilitation counselors, many students --and insurance
companies-- were 'ripped off'.
A polygraph organization publicly
criticized the school owner, about the lack of hours, in the polygraph
organization's publication.
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Learn
about a rarely-known source of polygraph work: polygraphing for Asylum /
Refugee immigration applicants! Your work might make the
difference between the request being granted or not.
Would you like to conduct polygraph examinations for
TV?! Learn why many are not chosen for film or radio use; see why
some polygraphers get continual requests from producers. Includes the one
common mistake made by most media first-timers! Author has more media
involvements and appearances in the recent past years than any other
polygraph examiner! Note: this section has doubled in size since last
major update.
Built from years of polygraph study and practice.
Also
includes a CD-ROM of these important documents,
formats and templates to add to your computer: interview sheets, techniques, various types
of 'fill-in-the-blanks' report samples, complete 1988 EPPA text, employee
notification forms in English & Spanish, and more! Most
content of this CD-ROM was built using WORD, so you can customize them
at any time as needed.
Lease a new computerized polygraph instrument; then buy it for $1 at the
end of the lease!
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Not all polygraph schools are equal:
Recently, we completely
reviewed a set of every hand-out, guide, study-sheet, notes,
etc, --virtually the complete & entire curriculum-- from a recent
class of DACA (Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment), the Federal
government polygraph academy previously known as DoD-PI (Department of
Defense Polygraph Institute). Very good - orderly
and well-researched. But 'dry'. No photographs. No
color; all black and white photocopies.
And it is based on the type of
exams conducted by government examiners-- where in most situations, the
examinee is required to submit to the exam. So, the DACA materials are
excellent for that, but are lacking in training for the many variables
encountered in private-sector exams (and of course, no polygraph 'business'
materials).
Note: many tidbits of updated research & technique
information were obtained during this review, and they have been added to
this 2008 version!
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Two more polygraph academies went out of business recently, both
in areas where there is a shortage of private polygraph examiners. Perhaps if
their past students had received better materials, ? ? ? ?
Don't we need to trust those 'approving' the polygraph
school?: When one school was undergoing their 'approval visit', they
tell that they were told to "Get rid of Instructor XXXXX; he does not meet
our standards; I can't approve you until you do". But months later,
Instructor XXXXX starts his own school, and he is approved by the same
person!
Learn how you can have a new computerized polygraph
instrument in your hands in 24 hours!
Trying to
'fluff up' the 'hours of teaching', some schools advertise that their
schedule includes TEN to FIFTEEN hours on 'History of
Lie-Detection'. Do you think that you that you will be a better
polygraph examiner by knowing how the ancient Indians or the Salem Witch
Trials did lie-detection?!!!
The 2 most common
compaints made to school licensing boards about polygraph academies: 1.
Many less class-room hours than per catalog (if you attend one, keep a
log: they can be ordered to give you back a % of your $!) 2. No 'jobs'
that were implied by their staff (when being 'sold' on the school, they
either offer 'placement' or tell you that gov't agencies will be looking to
hire you!)
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Not all
polygraph schools are equal: (Two similar examples-- see what the sad common
denominator is!)
1) Recently, a person was ready
to sign up to attend a 'respected' polygraph academy in a major city, one
that is 'approved by a polygraph organization'. He had cash ready.
But
the school's 'intake person' told him that "there is no work available for
private polygraph examiners, so unless a police department is ready to send
you to this school, just forget it".
This is in a state with a
shortage of private examiners!
2) Students at
another school in the same major city area were often told: "There is no work
for private examiners; get a government agency to hire you, as the public is
not a source of work",
The sad common denominator: Both schools are
owned by private examiners who have good business income from the public, and
they don't want their own students taking away their
business!
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Many good polygraphers have only little business: they
are well-skilled, but are lacking in 'marketing savvy'. Included in this
package are samples of PROVEN marketing tools- relatively inexpensive yet
effective!
Earning 'extra credit' at a
polygraph school?! OUCH! Complaints to the school licensing board about a
polygraph academy where the instructor asks women students to meet him after
school in the motel room across the street from the school (where he
stays during the school week). He even asked them to bring their own
liquor!
Would you like to be taught by a 'guest
instructor' who smokes marijuana during class-room breaks?!
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Learn which 5 little
parts get lost or broken the most often, so you can keep spares with
you. (Have these backup parts with your instrument; these are
all very low-priced, yet could keep you from working until a replacement
arrived)
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Not all
polygraph schools are equal:
Regarding the instructor at an 'approved by
a polygraph organization' school:
Has he been approved to be an
instructor by either that same polygraph organization OR by the state school
licensing board?!
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Also learn about PCSOT Examinations (Post-Conviction Sexual
Offender Testing), the most popular polygraph continuing-education
choice.
There are about 40 states that require sex offenders to
submit to polygraph testing!
Includes some of the knowledge gained
from attending two 40-hour 'approved by a polygraph organization' PCSOT
seminars and from years of actually conducting real PCSOT
examinations.
NOTE: a polygraph organization recently revealed a
disturbing fact: many PCSOT 'instructors' teaching at 'approved 40-hour PCSOT
courses' actually have litle or NO real-life experience in
actually conducting this type of exam!
The writers/compilers of this
2008 version have hands-on PAID experience administering this type of
examination for government agencies, county through
Federal.
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Research
is important:
For example, there are currently four 8-week polygraph
academies in California alone (there was a fifth, which recently
closed).
We have recent & complete sets of all issued
training materials and student notes from every one of these
schools.
NONE has near the range of coverage that this 40-pound package
does!
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Not all polygraph
schools are equal:
Another long-time instructor at
a respected/'approved' polygraph academy is no longer there, now replaced
by a younger and far-less experienced -but better- instructor. Wonder
why?
Could it be that many reviews completed by graduating students
contained complaints that the old instructor continually boasted, actually
sometimes many times every day, that he himself was the best examiner
anywhere while often including insults about his
competitors?!
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Injured,
and thinking about learning polygraph? One polygraph academy was said to have
been turned down for 'approval by a polygraph organization' because of
their 'accepting re-hab students'. Not exactly
ADA-compliant!
Sleazy behavior by a
couple of polygraph academy owners:
Some instrument manufacturers sell
complete new polygraph instrument packages to schools for only about
$1500, with the promise by the schools to NEVER sell them; they are
super-discounted only to be used at the school, in hopes that students will
like that brand and then order them for the full regular price of $6000 for
the same package.
Well, some schools have ordered several at about $1500
each, then re-sold some or all of these school instruments to
their students at prices from $3000 to $5000. Unsuspecting students don't
know, until a warranty repair or an upgrade is needed.
Note: some schools
are authorized sellers of instruments, making a $1000 or more commission on
each sale, which explains why they push a lesser brand than the
best.
Don't count on the class dates listed
on a school's website: many schools quietly 'skip' scheduled class dates,
entire 8 or 9 week blocks, when there were not enough students to 'make it
worth it'; this often happens AFTER you have paid and have arranged to be
off work for those entire months!
Why does one polygraph
'instructor' lie to the excited new students at the 'approved by a
polygraph organization' school he teaches for, telling them "I charge $2000
for a polygraph exam"? The truth: he really charges 1/5 of that:
$400! It is improper to lie to students, giving those students
unreasonable expectations about possible future
earnings.
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Not all
polygraph schools are equal:
Another example of FRAUD when it comes to
advertised hours of training; BUT this time, it is to deceive the very
'polygraph organization' who granted them 'Approved by a polygraph
organization' status!
This school is advertising that they are providing
the students with the hours of training per the organization's recommended
guideline polygraph training hours.
Admitting to the students that it
would be less hours per day than the posted schedule, they actually told the
students: "We won't tell (that polygraph organization) if you
don't"!
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The 5 most
common lies told by polygraph examiners to prospective clients:
1) "I
use a computerized polygraph". (said by some who only have old
analogs)
2) "The exam will take X hours". (Many examiners say double
the time it will really take)
3) "I am a Dr./PhD". (There are several
who have diploma-mill titles)
4) "I've done XXXX polygraph
exams". (One was embarrassed in court when found lying)
5) "I've done
polygraphs for XX years". (a timeline shows the lies)
A proper
training foundation is better than having to lie.
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Hundreds of dollars/hours of continuing
education every year are used to continually improve this
package!
Also improved for the 2008
edition: every section and page listed in the giant index (table of
contents) has been reviewed by a series of polygraph examiners, below new
and old, for suggested improvements and updating. Those modifications have
all been included!
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Not all polygraph
schools are equal:
Why was one 'respected' polygraph academy recently
quietly for sale for years; unsold for years, what event made it's value
suddenly become far, far less?!
Update: it finally sold, in 2007, to the
instructor there!
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Also learn about the extensive use of polygraph examinations at
sporting events (bodybuilding tournaments, races, fishing, cycling, and many
others). Why polygraph has replaced drug testing and more!
Why are most graduates of 8-week polygraph academies, one year
after graduating, NOT in the polygraph business?!
Instead of just 'theory', learn from those with years of 'applied
use' of lie-detection: learn from the real-world successes -and
mistakes- of others!
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Not all polygraph schools are equal:
Insist on
HONESTY- ask any school for an exact and detailed list of all
materials you will be receiving for your $5000 payment. Then ask to
review a set before you pay!
And not a 'Here's what we'll be
talking about' list; you want a list of the printed handouts and
materials.
Or ask to see every piece FIRST- then put it them on a
scale and see how much less material they are providing than what is in
this 40-pound package!
Our 'cards are on the table': our list is
below (and at about 10% of what the alternative would
cost!)
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Includes past input, technical support, and data from all four
polygraph manufacturers!
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Pirate alert! Last year, a less-than-honest
fellow decided to try to sell photocopies of an older version of
this copyrighted material to the public. He (and his buyers) ended up
paying more in fines and legal expenses than this fellow had earned in
the previous two years. And it was an older, smaller
version!
Compare the index (table of contents) below to the
posted schedule of topics offered at any polygraph academy
nationwide:
From the 61-page index
(table of contents):
(Specifications and prices are subject to change; your package may
slightly differ from this index in content and order)
SECTION INDEX
The 2 important words
you learn the first day at an 8-10 week polygraph academy (Know these
or you’ll sound like an amateur!)
More words- "Lie Detector Test",
AKA: (Names used for a polygraph examination)
More words-
"Polygraph Examiner", AKA: (Titles used by persons who conduct polygraph
examinations)
Polygraph History (The evolution of lie
detection) with 'DOD-PI notes'
More
polygraph history details (a time-line)
Additional polygraph
history
The first time a polygraph was used in court (February 2,
1935; and the details)
Polygraph Theory (How a polygraph works to
detect deception)
Psychology terminology
Physiological (the five
systems)
Physiological (Lies and the human body: one
overly-simplified path)
Physiological: Autonomic Nervous System (sympathetic and
parasympathetic)
Physiological: Muscle
System
Physiological: Cell System
Physiological: Plasma
Membrane System
Polygraph and/or Interview Text
Materials (Very few are available)
Polygraph
Tracings (What a polygraph is measuring)
Polygraph Tracings:
example (showing all four typical measurements)
Polygraph
Tracings (Cardio tracing
terminology)
Conventional/Analog/Mechanical-type Polygraph
Instruments (Never called a polygraph "machine"; known as a polygraph
instrument)
Close-up photo of a Stoelting analog polygraph
instrument
Close-up photo of a Lafayette analog polygraph
instrument
Photo: the two different GSR/EDA
finger-types
You will break your GSR/EDA finger-connectors
(electodes) (It will happen, sooner or later; here's how to be
prepared!)
Do you only have the GSR/EDA cable that uses the
'adhesive' electrodes, and you want to use steel-and-velcro connections on
the fingers instead? (here is a quick conversion that should work
for all brands that use the standard adhesive electrodes!)
Photo: adhesive GSR/EDA
disposable electrodes (very enlarged; finger-side of a wet-gel
electrode)
Photo: adhesive GSR/EDA disposable electrodes (very
enlarged; snap-side of a wet-gel electrode)
Where to buy adhesive
GSR/EDA disposable electrodes (where hospitals buy them
from!)
Label, GSR/EDA disposable electrode packaging (includes
part number used since 2006)
GSR/EDA electrode packaging (what main
package looks like)
Photo: a typical pneumo
with bead-chain
Are your pneumo chains too short? (With
bodybuilders and other large persons, occasionally the standard 48" chains
are not long enough. Here are suggestions from polygraphers across the
nation.)
An Interview or an Interrogation? (What's the
difference?)
Basic Interview Techniques (Federal
training)
Interview & Interrogation (Federal
training)
Interview & Interrogation (additional Federal
training)
Interviewing
The Client Interview (Learning
the details and the client's desired goal)
When &
how does the client pay? (Before I begin, when the testing is done, or
when the written report is ready? And: Cash only? Check? Credit
card?)
The safest way to accept credit cards (You actually get
paid in cash while the client gets to 'finance' the
examination!)
‘Send’ form, for client to pay by credit card but
you get paid cash
‘Receive’ form, for you to receive cash from your
client’s credit card payment
An alternate ‘Send’ form, for client to
pay by credit card but you get paid cash
An alternate ‘Receive’ form,
for you to receive cash from your client’s credit card payment
More
‘pay by credit card’ information
Credit Card Promissory Note (Not a
guarantee that a regular credit card payment can not be stopped, but it
helps!)
The Pre-Test Interview (Obtaining information
while instilling examiner confidence) with 'DOD-PI
notes'
The Pre-Test Interview (Federal
training)
The Pre-Test Interview Discussing any polygraph
research done by examinee and details of any past exams he/she has
had
Non-Verbal Communications (Federal
training)
Pre-Test Interview worksheet
Pre-Test psychological
questionaire
Attaching an Examinee to the
Polygraph (Step-by-step)
Attaching an Examinee to the
Polygraph (Federal training)
Attaching an Examinee to the
Polygraph (diagram)
Instructions to Examinee: How to
increase the accuracy of your polygraph examination
What if the examinee
is an amputee? (Loss of limbs does not always stop a
polygraph)
What if the examinee is pregnant? (Pro and
Con)
What if the examinee is pregnant? (Federal CID
guidelines)
What if the examinee is incarcerated? (notes about
in-custody examinations)
The 'Acquaintance
Test' (Coins---cards---numbers; also known as a 'Stim
Test') with 'DOD-PI notes'
The
Acquaintance Test (Federal training)
An alternate acquaintance
test
CVOS (Sometimes used instead of or as an 'acquaintance
test')
The 3 Types of Questions Used in a Modern
Polygraph
Examination (Irrelevant--Relevant--Control/Comparison)
Question
Formulation
Control/Comparison questions (also known as 'known lie'
questions; the hardest theory for many polygraph students to
understand; if done incorrect, will often make an examinee falsely
fail)
Control/Comparison question samples (for various types of
examinations)
Comparison/Control Questions for
juveniles
Control/Comparison Questions (Federal
training)
Control/Comparison Question QUALIFIERS
Development
of Control/Comparison Questions
Irrelevant question
samples
Relevant question samples
exercise: Irrelevant
Questions
exercise: Relevant Questions
exercise:
Control/Comparison Questions
Test Question
construction
Test Question construction (Federal
training)
Test Question construction (more Federal
training)
Test Question construction (additional Federal
training)
Single-issue examinations and multi-issue polygraph
examinations (One is much more accurate)
The client 'needs'
more relevant questions asked than allotted for on a standard
technique; what can I do? (Here's how some polygraph examiners handle
that!)
The 5 most common lies told by polygraph examiners to
prospective clients!
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SECTION
INDEX
'Techniques' Used By Polygraph
Examiners with 'DOD-PI
notes'
MGQT: Modified General
Question Technique (A popular polygraph technique) with 'DOD-PI notes'
MGQT: Modified General
Question Technique (Federal training)
MGQT: Modified General
Question Technique ("The question #3 mystery"; many persons fail
anything asked as question #3, but if they are asked the same question
as #5, 8, or 9 they will 'pass' it!)
MGQT: Modified General
Question Technique (more information)
MGQT: Modified General
Question Technique (Employee Theft 'script' example)
MGQT:
Modified General Question Technique (Relationship/Infidelity 'script'
example)
MGQT: Modified General Question Technique (Employee
Theft 'script' example; blank, and with no theory/terminology, as to be used
near examinees --also included on the
CD-ROM--
MGQT: Modified General Question
Technique (Infidelity 'script' example; blank, and with
no theory/terminology, as to be used near examinees --also included on the CD-ROM--
MGQT: Modified General
Question Technique (Employee/money theft; blank,
ENGLISH-SPANISH)
MGQT: Modified General Question
Technique (GENERIC BLANK; used by many polygraphers) --also included on the CD-ROM--
MGQT: Modified General
Question Technique (alternate format sheet)
AFMGQT: US Air
Force MGQT (as taught at DOD-PI; primarily used within the US
Government) with 'DOD-PI
notes'
AFMGQT: US Air Force MGQT Federal
training
AFMGQT: US Air Force MGQT additional Federal
training
ZCT: Zone Comparison Technique (Has safeguards for the
innocent and outside issues) with 'DOD-PI
notes'
ZCT: Zone Comparison Technique Federal
training
ZCT: Zone Comparison Technique additional Federal
training
ZCT: Zone Comparison Technique additional
training
ZCT: Zone Comparison Technique additional
training
ZCT: Zone Comparison Technique example
ZCT: Zone
Comparison Technique BLANK (GENERIC BLANK; used by many
polygraphers) --also included on the
CD-ROM--
ZCT: Zone Comparison Technique BLANK (alternate
format sheet)
ZCT: YOU-PHASE (Federal
training)
CIT: Concealed Information Test
POT: Peak Of Tension
test
POT: Peak Of Tension test (Federal training)
POT:
Peak Of Tension test (additional Federal training)
POT: Peak Of
Tension test (additional training)
TES: Test for Espionage and
Sabotage (a ‘directed-lie’ technique, developed and taught by
DOD-PI)
R/I: Relevant/Irrelevant
R/I:
Relevant/Irrelevant (Federal training)
R/I:
Relevant/Irrelevant (additional Federal training)
Major law-enforcement
agency pre-employment polygraph examination 16-page background
questionnaire (aka Pre-polygraph Questionnaire) (16 pages;
200+ questions; used for testing; typically about drug use, habits, sex,
past criminal activity, and more; with each ‘Yes’ answer given it asks
“How many times did you do this?” and then asks for approximate
dates)
Typical law-enforcement agency Personal History
Statement 7-page background questionnaire
Law Enforcement Applicant
Testing (Federal training)
Questions often asked
of law-enforcement applicants during pre-test
interviews
LEPET: Law Enforcement Pre-Employment Test (Federal
training)
LEPET: Law Enforcement Pre-Employment
Test (additional Federal training)
LEPET: Law Enforcement
Pre-Employment Test (additional Federal training)
Typical
relevant and comparison questions asked of applicants with no prior
law-enforcement experience
Typical relevant and comparison questions
asked of lateral applicants (with prior law-enforcement
experience)
Follow directions! ‘Fail letter’ from a law-enforcement
agency to an applicant regarding his examination
Are you an
experienced polygraph examiner, and you want to do exams for a
law-enforcement agency? (Here are some questions often asked of you at
hiring interviews)
Example: typical government agency job
posting
If you want to contract with government agencies, here are
some questions they may be asking of the ‘References’ you listed on your
application or bid:
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Polygraph
'Countermeasures' (Methods used to try to 'beat' the
polygraph; virtually all fail, and why)
Effect of Drugs on
polygraph examinations (Federal
training)
Countermeasures (additional training)
The One
'Countermeasure' Method Most Likely To Quietly 'Beat' A Polygraph
Examination - If Not Closely Watched For (Obviously, to be kept very
confidential)
Defeating 'Mental Countermeasures' (Some
examinees will compute math equations or other mental exercises while
answering Yes or No, to reduce the size of their responses; here is a
technique to reduce that from being effective!)
Polygraph Terminology List
Polygraph terminology glossary, 14
pages
Polygraph Terminology List, additional
Polygraph
Acronyms
Polygraph Chart Markings (Common symbols that an
examiner places on the charts; many to show an improper movement -an
'artifact'-- that could wrongly effect the examination
results)
Working with 'plunging GSR' (when the GSR/EDA tracings
are immediately dropping hard after each answer)
Chart
Analysis/Numerical Scoring (Did he pass or did he fail?)
Manual
Chart Analysis/Test Data Analysis (Federal training)
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sex
Offender Testing (Countermeasures)
PCSOT QUIZ 3 (covering
'countermeasures')
PCSOT: Post-Conviction
Sexual Offender Testing (Abbreviations and acronyms
used in dealing with mental health professionals-- a 10-page
list!)
PCSOT: Post-Conviction Sexual Offender
Testing (BA, CGP, CSAT, CSG, LCSW, MA, MFT, MPA, PhD, RN,
etc: what do all those letters following the clients' names
mean?)
PCSOT QUIZ 4 (covering 'initials following clients'
names')
PCSOT: Post-Conviction Sexual Offender
Testing example- maintenance exam question-format
form with ‘DoD-PI
notes’
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sex
Offender Testing (Administering the Sexual History
Disclosure Examination)
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sex Offender Testing (Sexual History Disclosure Examination questionaire, 20
pages)
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sexual Offender Testing US v.
Antelope; 2005 decision (28 pages)
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sexual Offender Testing (Model PCSOT Policy)
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sex Offender Testing Alaska's PCSOT program
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sex Offender Testing Wisconsin's PCSOT program
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sexual Offender Testing Example of a government agency or treatment-provider referral
form
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sex Offender
Testing What is a '730
Evaluation'?
PCSOT Post-Conviction Sex
Offender Testing What is an 'Abel
Assessment'? (Some PCSOT clients ask if you could also provide
this)
CONREP: Conditional Release Program (Introduction)
CONREP QUIZ 1 (covering 'Introduction')
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SECTION INDEX
Ethics (From
'bribes' to examinee privacy)
Ethics (newspaper
story)
Polygraph newspaper
Legal
1
Legal 2
Polygraph in court (Related
decisions)
Legal Considerations (Federal
training)
Miranda admonishment, English/Spanish
Consent
form
One type of Consent form
Consent Form,
Federal
Example: polygraph declaration, under penalty of
perjury (when submitting an exam into court evidence)
Order
Denying The Government’s Motion In Opposition To The Admission Of Polygraph
Evidence (USA v Davlia and Cummings; government agencies use polygraph
examinations, so how can they not accept polygraph as
evidence?!)
SECTION
INDEX
Quality Control/Peer-Review/Quality
Assurance (Evaluating another polygraph examiner's
work)
Quality Control / Peer-Review (a
check-list)
Example: Quality Control/Peer-Review/Quality
Assurance (a sample of a critical evaluation of another polygraph
examiner's work)
Another example: Quality Control/Peer-Review/Quality
Assurance (another sample of a critical evaluation of another polygraph
examiner's work)
Another example: Quality Control /
Peer-Review (when two exams in the same week give different results, and
the other examiner’s charts are not made available, an
interview)
Polygraph Schools
What is
‘Preceptor-trained’? (Instead of attending a polygraph academy, some learn
polygraphy by working under a polygraph examiner)
Typical 3-page
Intern Evaluation/Progress report (used in some states that regulate
trainees)
DOD-PI: Department of Defense Polygraph
Institute (The world's largest polygraph academy!)
DoD-PI:
color
DoD-PI: black & white
CIFA/DoD: color
John E.
Reid and Associates (Interview & Interrogation training and
materials)
Polygraphing Youth/Teens
Juvenile
worksheet
Control Questions for juveniles
EPPA:
Employee Polygraph Protection Act (Since 1988, it affects
pre-employment and employee-theft examinations)
EPPA: Employee
Polygraph Protection Act (Common violations that bring big
fines!)
EPPA posted sign
EPPA complete 1988
text --also included on the
CD-ROM--
Example: another type of employee
notification letter
--also included on the
CD-ROM--
Example: post-examination (analog)
report to client
Spanish (Terminology and a special
note)
Using an Interpreter (Federal training)
Using an
Interpreter (additional Federal training)
Networking for
Polygraphers
PEOA.us website homepage Polygraph
Examiners Of America (the nationwide polygraph referral
network)
PEOA.us website menu (enlarged) Polygraph Examiners Of
America (the nationwide polygraph referral network)
PEOA.us
website bodytext (enlarged) Polygraph Examiners Of America (the
nationwide polygraph referral network)
PEOA.us
postcard Polygraph Examiners Of America (the nationwide
polygraph referral network)
ASTM
ASTM membership
information
ForensicInvestigatorsNetwork.com website
homepage (another source of work for polygraph
examiners!)
ForensicInvestigatorsNetwork.com body text
(enlarged) (another source of work for polygraph
examiners!)
ForensicInvestigatorsNetwork.com icons
(enlarged) (another source of work for polygraph
examiners!)
Continuing Education
thePIdirectory.com
website homepage (another source of work for polygraph
examiners!)
thePIdirectory.com body text (enlarged) (another source of
work for polygraph examiners!)
thePIdirectory.com icons
(enlarged) (another source of work for polygraph examiners!)
General
list of items on a typical state-licensing test or on a certification
test
Repairs and Supplies
‘As Seen On TV’ sign
Dealing with the
Media
Television appearances ‘tips’
Television appearances: ‘tips’
#2 (more to know before your first appearance)
“To be on TV, don’t’ I
need to be a member of SAG or AFTRA?” No! (and why)
Example:
contract required that you sign to allow your likeness to be used and
televised; ‘Personal Appearance Release Form’
Example: Personal
Release
Example: contract required that you sign to allow your
likeness to be used and televised; ‘Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure’
agreement
Another example: contract required that you sign to allow
your likeness to be used and televised; ‘Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure’
agreement
Another example: contract required that you sign to allow
your likeness to be used and televised; 3-page ‘Contributor
Release’
Filming sign 1
Filming sign 2
Example: a
filming ‘call sheet’ (daily schedule) from a TV show involving
polygraph
Example: Actual ‘cue cards’/reference cards used on
live-taped TV shows
Script example: polygraph scene, 2007 TV
commercial, where a polygraph examiner was hired to be on-set during
filming as a Technical Advisor
Script example: polygraph scene, 2007
TV detective series, where a polygraph examiner was hired to
be on-set during filming as a Technical Advisor
Screen shot: TV
examination
Screen shot: chart sample
Screen shot: Editor’s
view of a TV taping
Director’s hand-drawn film-set diagram for a
polygraph show, showing where cameras and all else will be
located
Release agreement
Example: a 5-page Associate Release
(appearance) agreement
Example: an Emergency Medical Authorization and
Release
Example: polygraph news blurb and photo, AP / Associated
Press
Example: polygraph examination photo, television
show
AFTRA timesheet
Time card
Mileage form
‘As Seen
On TV’ sign
State government agencies post requests for bids
on providing examinations; here’s one website example!
Typical 2007
RFP / Request For Proposal / bid-request from a government agency, all
requirements (20 pages)
Another typical 2007 RFP / Request For Proposal /
polygraph bid-request from a government agency, all requirements (33
pages)
Another typical 10/2007 RFP / Request For Proposal / polygraph
bid-request, from a state supreme court, all requirements (28
pages)
Example: typical government agency job
posting
Insurance (typically, 'Liability' and 'Errors &
Omissions')
Example: typical application for professional
insurance
another typical application for professional
insurance
Archive: lie-detection advertisement
FLpolygraph.org
website homepage Florida Alliance of Polygraph Examiners (FAPE is the FL
division of PEOA.US)
News story: FBI: 'Killer cracked after polygraph
test'
SECTION INDEX
Lie-Detection Research Laboratory (Largest organized private
repository of lie-detection-related literature/memorabilia/PCSOT and VSA
data/operation and repair manuals/ hand-outs and materials from polygraph
seminars & schools; textbooks/DOD-PI Annual Reports To
Congress/instruments/ and more; coverage era 1950s to present)
(To
see the titles of some of the research literature that has been
produced.)
One view of a wall of Lie-Detection Research Laboratory's
library
(each example below shows approximately 10 titles; NOTE- no
copies of these materials are available from us.)
Example 1:
Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example 2: Lie-Detection Research
Laboratory
Example 3: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example 4:
Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example 5: Lie-Detection Research
Laboratory
Example 6: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example 7:
Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example 8: Lie-Detection Research
Laboratory
Example 9: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example
10: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example 11: Lie-Detection Research
Laboratory
Example 12: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example
13: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example 14: Lie-Detection Research
Laboratory
Example 15: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example
16: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example 17: Lie-Detection Research
Laboratory
Example 18: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example
19: Lie-Detection Research Laboratory
Example 20: Lie-Detection Research
Laboratory
Literature from Polygraph Manufacturers
Own your own ‘dot-com’ name in 5 minutes for about $10 per
year
Websites of various Polygraph Examiners (listed as examples
only; no permission granted to copy them)
Example: website of a
Polygraph Examiner (shown as an example only; no permission granted to
copy it)
Another example: website of a Polygraph
Examiner (shown as an example only; no permission granted to copy
it)
'VIPs' in Polygraphy Today (Names to know in the
polygraph industry)
Tribute to a passed Polygraph
Examiner
Future of Lie-Detection
Polygraph Research (Federal
training)
Security and Safety (for the examiner and for the
instrument)
PolygraphAcademy.com website homepage
'Certified
Polygraph Examiner' (an examination to promote nationwide
standards)
States that License or Register
Polygraphers
States that DO NOT License or Register
Polygraphers
Where To Buy USED Polygraph Instruments
Proper
Attire for Polygraph Examiners
Polygraph shirts: Often used by
law-enforcement agency polygraph units; short-sleeved polo shirts popular
with examiners (full ordering details)
Photo: polygraph examiner
shirts
Other polygraph shirts more short-sleeved polo shirts
popular with examiners (full ordering details)
Photo: other
polygraph examiner shirts
Polygraph Examiner 'Horror
Stories' (don't repeat their mistakes, including: using phony ‘PhD’ or
‘Doctor’ titles; falsely testifying in court that “I did x000 exams in
the last x years”; stepping on toes to look for thumbtack; testing with a
missing pneumo; using bad spelling on reports; causing a $$$$$
EPPA-violation by asking about other than the loss; polygraph instructor
who every day for 8 weeks told the class how great a polygrapher he is-
every 15 minutes; claiming to be the Technical Advisor for a TV show- when
they chose a different polygrapher instead; and administering marriage
therapy instead of conducting an impartial exam)
Polygraph
Quick Reference Guide (The often-needed data, all on one
page)
'Which 5 little parts get lost or broken the
most often, so I can keep spares with me?’ (Have these backup parts
with your instrument; these are all very low-priced, yet could
keep you from working until a replacement
arrived)
LosAngelesCountyPolygraph.com website homepage (a
source of work for polygraphers in California) (This is a division of
PEOA.US)
LosAngelesCountyPolygraph.com cities list
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SECTION INDEX
Computerized Polygraph
Instruments (Never called a polygraph "machine"; known as a
polygraph instrument)
FOUR TOOLBARS, side-by-side (one each,
from all four computerized
manufacturers)
Axciton
Lafayette
Limestone
Stoelting
Scoring
Software for Computerized Polygraphs (programs to analyze polygraph
data)
QUIZ: Scoring Software for Computerized Polygraphs (match the
programs to their developers)
Identifi (using this popular scoring
algorithm)
Polyscore (using this popular scoring
algorithm)
OSS 1 and 2 (Objective Scoring
System)
OSS3 Objective Scoring System 3 -released
8/2007-
Financing A New Computerized Polygraph
Instrument
Computer storage/carry cases (photo
example: the most popular hardcase, upper level)
Computer
storage/carry cases (photo example: the most popular
hardcase, lower/hidden level, with computer lifted away)
Instrument
storage/carry cases for computerized polygraph instruments (Would you
carry a $6000 polygraph in a kid's $15 backpack?!) (example: the
popular hardcase)
Examples of case nameplates available for
hardcases that slip into the space cut out near the handle (actual
size)
Instrument storage/carry cases for computerized polygraph
instruments (example: the popular softcase)
Video
Cameras for attaching to computerized polygraph instruments (example:
the most-recommended model)
Surge/Spike protector (example: the
popular palm-sized model)
You WILL lose mobile exams without this
99-cent adapter (some older homes & offices can not use your power
cords)
Portable printer (photo example: a $50 color printer in
a hardcase with power supply, USB cable, and 2 spare ink
cartridges)
Portable printer: (photo)
Another portable printer
(photo)
Another portable printer (details)
Portable Power (a
small portable power supply that can power your laptop computer for a few
extra hours when conducting polygraph examinations at remote locations that
have no electricity; $99 - $150)
Software to clone your hard drive to
a back-up hard drive (saves all of your past examinations, along with your
complete operating system and your polygraph software-- plus your
scoring software which usually only allows ONE installation! Prepares
a back-up hard drive, ready to plug into any computer if
needed)
Remote-monitoring of an
examination, using inexpensive video equipment (allows for monitoring
without being in the same room)
Specifications of typical
remote-monitoring video equipment
2-page brochure, typical
remote-monitoring video equipment
photo, typical
remote-monitoring video equipment, in a hard carry-case
photo, front,
typical remote-monitoring video equipment
photo, rear, typical
remote-monitoring video equipment
photo, portable VCR, in a hard
carry-case
USB cable choices (and why to carry a
spare)
photo, USB cable
EXAMPLE: a
generic post-examination report blank --also
included on the CD-ROM--
EXAMPLE: an
employee money theft post-examination report blank --also included on the CD-ROM--
QUIZ: Axciton computerized polygraph (Terms and
Notes)
View of CD software: Axciton computerized
polygraph
Another view of CD software: Axciton computerized
polygraph
‘How to give an exam in 7 easy steps’ (Seven pages of
help from the Axciton staff!)
INDEX TOOLBAR 4.8: Axciton computerized
polygraph
INDEX TOOLBAR 6.5: Axciton computerized
polygraph
EXPLANATION, INDEX TOOLBAR: Axciton computerized
polygraph
Changing the language: Axciton computerized
polygraph (The only polygraph already programmed for 3 languages:
English, Spanish, and Russian!)
Screenshot- language choice
menu: Axciton computerized polygraph
Accessing the
built-in Pharmaceutical Dictionary: Axciton computerized
polygraph (If examinee tells of using a drug, see which tracing it is
likely to affect)
Federal training
volume, Lafayette LX-4000 computerized polygraph
TERMS: Lafayette
LX-4000 computerized polygraph
NOTES: Lafayette LX-4000 computerized
polygraph
QUIZ: Lafayette LX-4000 computerized polygraph (Terms and
Notes)
Test Data Notations, Lafayette LX-4000 computerized
polygraph (Federal training)
View of CD software: Lafayette
computerized polygraph
SCREENSHOT: Security Screen (requires 'User
ID' and 'Password' to start program) Lafayette LX-4000 computerized
polygraph (9.9)
Save time: removing the requirement of entering
a User ID and Password: Lafayette LX-4000 computerized polygraph (see
which LX-4000 versions this will work for and will not work
for)
Adding a "Center ALL Tracings' Button: Lafayette LX-4000
computerized polygraph (Instead of manually clicking on the tip of each
tracing arrow one-at-a-time to center the tracings, adding this one button
will let you click just once to instantly center all four!)
"What is
the button marked 'pneumo vent' for?": Lafayette LX-4000 computerized
polygraph (Quick help for the Lafayette staff!)
Using the Drug
Reference Guide Lafayette LX-4000 computerized polygraph
SCREENSHOT:
Drug Reference Lafayette LX-4000 computerized polygraph
Finger-cuff Lafayette
LX-4000 computerized polygraph (an alternative to the arm blood-pressure
cuff; it improves examinee’s comfort, allowing longer test
times!)
3A: SCORING an
examination with POLYSCORE: Lafayette LX-4000 computerized polygraph (for
after completing all steps of 'Preparing to Start an Examination' and
'Administering an Examination')
3B: SCORING an examination with OSS:
Lafayette LX-4000 computerized polygraph (for after completing all steps
of 'Preparing to Start an Examination' and 'Administering an
Examination')
"Why are my GSR tracings dropping?" Lafayette LX-4000
computerized polygraph (Quick help from the Lafayette
staff!)
Do you only have the
GSR/EDA cable that uses the 'adhesive' electrodes, and you want to use
steel-and-velcro connections on the fingers instead? (Lafayette has a
quick conversion that lets you use the standard electrodes
instead!)
Did your cardio pen and its tracings disappear off the
screen? Lafayette LX-4000 computerized polygraph
Repairing a Pneumo
Chest Assembly (Thanks to Lafayette Instrument!)
Sales
literature 1: Lafayette LX-4000 polygraph (2004)
Sales literature 2:
Lafayette LX-4000 polygraph (2004)
Sales literature 3: Lafayette LX-4000
polygraph (2004)
Sales literature 4: Lafayette LX-4000 polygraph
(2004)
Sales literature 5: Lafayette LX-4000 polygraph
(2005)
Sales literature 6: Lafayette LX-4000 polygraph
(2005)
Sales literature 7: Lafayette LX-4000 polygraph
(2005)
Sales literature 8: Lafayette LX-4000 polygraph
(2005)
(ARCHIVE) Preparing to start
an examination: Lafayette 3000 computerized polygraph (for
LX-3000 model only; an older model; no video; gold DAS box; no USB--
requires a serial port; uses batteries or an AC-adapter for
power)
Quick Start instructions, 15 pages: Limestone
computerized polygraph (Polygraph Professional Suite version 2.6
1/2007)
Quick Start instructions, 11 pages: Limestone computerized
polygraph (Polygraph Professional Suite 2.0 1/2006)
Session
Information screen: Limestone computerized polygraph (Polygraph
Professional Suite version 2.6 1/2007)
Customing your 'Event Markers'
(F-keys): Limestone computerized polygraph (Those on-screen F-keys are
programmable, allowing you to make specified keys place words permanently on
the charts, from 'cough' and 'talk'-- to your own name!)
Saving
changes you made to the screen: Limestone computerized polygraph (pin/pen
positions, colors, tracing thickness, sensitivity, etc; quick help from the
Limestone staff!)
“How do I check to see which PPS software version I
have?” Limestone computerized polygraph (two pages- quick help from the
Limestone staff!)
How to use the Session Information
Dialog Limestone computerized polygraph (for versions 2.4.0.0 12/2006
and higher)
Save time: removing the requirement of entering a password
to start program: Limestone computerized polygraph
Left-side toolbar:
Limestone computerized polygraph (seen in
ChartRecorder)
ChartViewer 'Program Options': Limestone
computerized polygraph (seen in ChartRecorder)
"I forgot my
password!" Limestone computerized polygraph (Quick help from the Limestone
staff!)
'Event Marker' bar: Limestone computerized polygraph (seen
in ChartRecorder)
Making customized question templates: Limestone
computerized polygraph (such as 'MGQT/theft' or
'ZCT/relationship')
Also includes a CD-ROM of these
important documents, formats and templates to add to your
computer: interview sheets, techniques, various types
of 'fill-in-the-blanks' report samples, complete 1988 EPPA text, employee
notification forms in English & Spanish, and more! Most
content of this CD-ROM was built using WORD, so you can customize them
at any time as needed.
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Visit PolygraphAcademy.com for more
details and for the newest version of this comprehensive package
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The complete 40-pound package "polygraph academy in a
box": $745. + shipping/handling (or we can use
your UPS/FedEx account, or you can pick it up!) (818)
883-6969
Included, but also available separately, are all
'sections', including:
any of the four manufacturer
sections, for examiners who already completely know all polygraph
fundamentals and who have now purchased a new or used computerized
instrument; $195 + shipping
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events' section; $195 + shipping
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the 'PCSOT' section; $245 +
shipping
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the
'media/TV' section; $195 + shipping
the
'Police/Law Enforcement Applicant' section; $245 +
shipping
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a CD-ROM of these important documents, formats
and templates to add to your computer:
EPPA (complete 1988
text)
Employee Notification form, English
Employee Notification
form, Spanish
Employee Notification form, Alternate
Spanish
Modified General Question Technique blank --General
Purpose
Modified General Question Technique blank --Employee Money
Theft
Modified General Question Technique
blank --Relationship/Infidelity
Modified General Question Technique
blank --PCSOT maintenance
(most of the content of this CD-ROM was built using
WORD, so you can customize at any time as needed);
$95 +
shipping
The complete 40-pound package "polygraph academy in
a box": $745. + shipping/handling (or we can
use your UPS/FedEx account, or you can pick it up!) (818)
883-6969