Secrets that some
polygraph schools do NOT
want their students to know!



NOTE:
It is sad that this information 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'.
Below you will find more than twenty pages of information that many traditional
polygraph schools and organizations (that the schools push-push-push their students to join)
do NOT want you to know, as it exposes their faults,
mistakes, and in some cases: their fraudulent activity
.



Fall 2008:
a polygraph academy owner is under investigation at the same time
by the Federal government, his state government, his county
law enforcement agency, and his city police department,
all for different crime accusations!



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Ron Rose, POLYGRAPH EXAMINER,
24-7 Investigations, Inc
www.24-7investigation.com, California

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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."



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Larry DiPaola, POLYGRAPH EXAMINER, Modern Polygraph
www.ModernPolygraph.com, California

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Fall 2008: a graduated(?) student working at an 'association approved'
polygraph academy & agency does such poor work that he almost destroys
an examinee's life! A businessman, wanting to clear up his wife's
suspicion of infidelity, suggests that he undergo a polygraph exam.

Unbeknownst to the businessman, the agency assigns him to a recent student
with little experience. After FUMBLING FOR ABOUT AN HOUR to get the
computer polygraph instrument ready (obviously he didn't have the well-refined
and easy to follow step-by-step how-to sheets from PolygraphAcademy.com!), the
examiner used such (later determined by experienced examiners) poor question
choices and technique that the businessman falsely failed his exam!

Lucky for him, his wife allowed him to be re-tested professionally,
and he easily passed.





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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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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Michael Hodge, POLYGRAPH EXAMINER,
Forensic Credibility Assessments,
www.ForensicExamination.info, Maryland

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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'.





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Lisa Javoric, POLYGRAPH EXAMINER, LLJ Polygraph,
www.LLJpolygraph.com, California

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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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the bad- unless it is with a long-experienced,
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the good- structured.
the bad- see the many secrets revealed on these pages.

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InDepthPolygraph.com,
New York

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The 1980s were long ago;
so why do most polygraph schools
still teach the same as then?



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Or, already graduated? See the 78-page index
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Why were two polygraph academies recently ordered to
refund THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to their students?!



The PolygraphAcademy.com package includes
many 'tips', 'tricks', and special advice
that even most long-time polygraphers
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and a polygraph academy owner/operator

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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.



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www.VancouverPolygraph.com, Washington


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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 in the PolygraphAcademy.com package;
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.
So: why do polygraph schools not have this for their students?
Because their instructors have never done that type of work!



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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."



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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 50-pounder are enough sample reports to
assist any examiner in writing respectable examination reports.


Update, Fall 2008:
This week, another recent graduate of an 'association approved'
polygraph academy advised "I have a client now and I need a report
sample-- the $5000 8-week school I just graduated from did absolutely
no mentioning of how to do a report, not even giving us a single sample"
.
More proof that some polygraph academy owners know this sad truth:
most $5000 graduates will NEVER have a real polygraph business after finishing.

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I spent over a year writing one. John Grogan clearly spent many years
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PI’s are very adept for the most part with the ability to gather key
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He details all the equipment out there and where to purchase it.
He shares with you all the various other places one can go to take
any training offering to teach polygraph, but you needn't go elsewhere.
John’s manuals cut to the chase for what you need to know right now,
versus wasting away in a classroom for 8 or more weeks. Many academies
for the most part really want to get $5000 from you and then teach you
the minimum basics and about the body parts and history of polygraph.
I really couldn't care less about how
lie-detection was done a thousand years ago!
Nice to know stuff, but is it really necessary?!
Then you have to make sure they are even a credible
agency out of the numerous ones out there teaching CRAP!

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and I have now done that and far more."


Cliff Lindquist, POLYGRAPH EXAMINER
www.LindquistInvestigationServices.com,
California


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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."




The package from PolygraphAcademy.com is
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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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 address were not valid!

Removing the 'Contact A Member' section of their website has
likely cost their dues-paying members many paid examinations.


Update 5/2008:
this section of the website
has been back up for about a year:
a fresh count adds up to about 800,
including from all countries worldwide and
from both private and government,
and including full and associate members!

So, where are the other 'thousands' of members?!




Lack of integrity:

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' polygraph school a year before.





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!



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: the package from PolygraphAcademy.com
is NOT a quickie'click-on-print-and-out-comes-a-manual'.
This is a FIFTY 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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With the PolygraphAcademy.com package:
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.



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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 2009 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!




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 the PolygraphAcademy.com 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 2009 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 8/9-week polygraph academies
in California alone (there was a fifth, which recently closed).

We reviewed recent & complete sets of all issued training
materials and student notes from every one of these schools.

NONE has the range of coverage that the
50-pound PolygraphAcademy.com 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!
Some schools have closed for several 8/9-week blocks in a row!
One 'approved' polygraph school, showing a year calendar of back-to-back
non-stop 8-week poly classes only actually held TWO of them last year!



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 2009 PolygraphAcademy.com package:
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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In the PolygraphAcademy.com package:
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 8/9-week polygraph academies,
one year after graduating, NOT in the polygraph business?!


In the PolygraphAcademy.com package:
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
the PolygraphAcademy.com 50-pound package!

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