Complaint about a California polygraph examiner

Complaint about a California polygraph examiner

(No identifiers are listed. If you recognize yourself here, correct the situation for the future. Courtesy of Polygraph Examiners Of America, www.peoa.US )

APA member: YES
Recent past complaints: YES
Examiner gender: M

Client says she went to police to ask for a polygraph regarding an assault/battery incident, but they said they could not.

Client says she paid examiner a very high price, money she needs for a car repair but that proving her truth had to come first. He had her write out a summary that included what she wanted to prove her truth on, and she assumed he would develop questions from it. He first did a 'stim test' where he had her privately write a number backwards using her left hand, then told her he 'heard her lie voice' when she followed his direction to lie about that number. He told her a story where he claimed to have had an 'epiphany' --Greek for a vision or realization from God-- at his age 15 about never lying to his dad again, and he asked her when she had such an epiphany-- this confused her, as she never had such a life event. He told her he would need her to lie during the test on certain unrelated questions he would be inserting such as 'Did you ever lie to a loved one after you were age 15'. Testing began. Surprisingly, instead of asking her direct questions about the situation such as 'Did you strike . . .' or 'Did you push . . .', he chose to ask her indirect questions about the situation: 'Did you lie on this statement?', Did you tell only the truth on this statement?'.

Examiner is said to have told her that she completely failed all questions about the statement. Devastated because she says she was completely truthful, she is also upset that he did not directly ask her questions about the situation (research and other polygraph professionals have since told her that the 'statement method' is known to be less accurate-- other such data is also on this blog).