_____________________________________________________________________________ Please contact BCT, LLC direct and speak to a specialist for associated fees or visit International Security Services at www.isssecurity.org "The problem with the polygraph is, quite frankly, it works too well! If one is being deceptive, his or her own autonomic nervous system will simply give them up against one's will; the parasympathetic will be too late, as the sympathetic has already triggered!" Adj. Professor Michael J. Woodrow (1/08) It is my scientific and professional opinion that properly conducted polygraph examinations have an accuracy rate that exceeds 90%. Furthermore, the confidence in a polygraph result indicating truthfulness is approximately 95%. Prof. David E. Raskin A compelling case can be made to support the scientific validity of polygraph tests. Studies already show that polygraph results are as sound as other, admissible forms of forensic evidence, such as ballistics and hair fiber analysis. Dr. Charles Honts (Editor of The Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology) The American Polygraph Association has a compendium of research studies available on the validity and reliability of polygraph testing. The 80 research projects listed, published since 1980, involved 6,380 polygraph examinations or sets of charts from examinations. Researchers conducted 12 studies of the validity of field examinations, following 2, 174 field examinations, providing an average accuracy of 98%. The American Polygraph Association The American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM) developed the following for the psycho-physiological detection of deception; i.e, 90% and above accuracy: • E 2000, Standard Guide for Minimum Basic Education and Training of Individuals Involved in the Detection of Deception PDD (1998); and • E 2064, Standard Guide for Minimum Continuing Education of Individuals Involved in the Psychophysiological Detection of Deception PDD (2000) ASTM U.S. Government studies have concluded that the single-issue (one question) polygraph exam, conducted properly by a qualified examiner, is up to 95 percent accurate. Special Agent FBI Jack Trimarco (Ret.) One of the believers is convicted pedophile Paul Duncan. He told the Wall Street Journal the test was able to determine he was nervous and lying because he had violated his parole by viewing pornography online. "Don't believe anyone who tells you polygraph doesn't work,” he told the newspaper. Inmate Paul Duncan (convicted pedophile) Mr. Chimarys, who has a law degree and a master's degree in psychology and is retired from the (NCIS) Naval Criminal Investigative Service, estimates the machines have an accuracy rate exceeding 90 percent. Mike Chimarys, chairman of the Texas Association of Polygraph 90 percent is the figure accepted for accuracy by the academy for most tests. Donald Krapohl, special assistant to the director of the federal government's (DACA) Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment Studies by the National Academy of Sciences found that the tests are wrong about 10 percent of the time, either falsely implicating truth-tellers or failing to detect liars. (Thus, a 90% accuracy rate; 10% failure on the examiners interpretation? That said, the NAS study is often criticized by most professionals in the field of psycho-physiology) NAS Study 2001 "We have people in the scientific community who look at the same research that I look at and they reach a conclusion that is quite different," Horvath said. "From their point of view, they allege that polygraph testing is probably only around 70 percent accurate, and it has a great bias against truthful people. Then, what the proponents say, looking at the same research, they reach a quite different conclusion, and that is that polygraph testing exceeds 90 percent accuracy." Dr. Frank Horvath "I've tested many psychopaths and killers, and when they lie, they all flunk the test!" Dr. Charles Honts (Editor of The Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology) Dr. Robert Hare, a world-renowned expert in the study and identification of psychopaths led a research team to conduct a mock-crime laboratory study using the polygraph with prisoners who were clinically diagnosed as psychopaths and non-psychopaths in British Columbia, Canada. Accuracy of the non-psychopath group was 95% whereas, the psychopath group was slightly higher with 95.8%. That said, NO ONE WAS ABLE TO BEAT TEST. Dr. Louis Rovner Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer, said a future case may show convincing reasons to allow polygraph results in court. United States v. Sheffer I caught a Czech double agent who had been trained to beat the polygraph. I tested and identified another of Ames' (Aldrich Ames) agents who turned out to be a double agent. In the book, I also cite a test in which one of my colleagues caught a Bloc agent who had applied to work for the CIA. John Sullivan (CIA retired) "I know they'll scare the hell out of people." (Thoughts on the polygraph) President Richard Nixon I advised Dr. Laskey that incidents in which spies have been caught through polygraph are a matter of public record, specifically, Sharon Scranage and Jim Nicholson. There are others, but those two were featured in The Washington Post stories. John Sullivan (CIA retired) Sadly, some of the greatest minds on the planet have lost their careers (US Government) for sharing secrets with those not privileged; in response, they have attempted to discredit the source of their undoing (polygraph). Adj. Professor Michael J. Woodrow (3/3/09)