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: NO
Examiner gender: M

Client says they paid more than $300 to have her husband tested for fidelity. She said husband had insisted on choosing the examiner, and that he had called around before choosing this one.

Client said examiner tested husband behind a closed door and was done in 15 minutes.

Examiner provided client with a printout from the polygraph instrument that showed all (I, R and C) questions used, showed MGQT to have been used, and showed the final computer scoring of NDI.

However, as this printout was later reviewed by neutral examiners, it also revealed a glaring fact: the examiner did not use C questions written as taught by federal polygraph academy. Both improperly worded, one C question was actually just another R question. Appears that the examiner does not follow the required Control Question Theory as is the basis of examinations of the past several decades (this is not the proper venue for listing specifics). The computer scoring can not be blamed as its users are assumed and required to use properly worded C questions when filling in those blanks

Not a valid exam. Examiner should simply take a refresher seminar on CQ wording/scoring.