PIs: If you provide polygraph exams through a subcontractor, you should know this information

If your chosen examiner has only an antique 'analog' polygraph, RUN!

Buyer beware - INSIST on a computer polygraph - here's what you need to know:

--From the 1950s to the 1980s, polygraph examiners used the old-fashioned analog polygraph instruments, which were nothing but a roll of chart paper and 4 moving pens.

--Each test produced more than 20 feet of paper of 4 wiggly lines, approximately 120 small body-reaction changes to each be hand-measured by the examiner

--In the early 1990s, about 20 years ago, computerized polygraph instruments arrived. No ink or paper problems, self-scoring, and far more accurate!

--Almost no real examiner nowadays uses an old antique analog, but there are a few part-timers that will use them instead of the proper equipment, hoping that the untrained public might not know the difference!

--The following are secrets that part-timers who can only afford the old antique analog polygraph instruments ($200 to buy one on eBay, since virtually all professionals of the past 20 years have dumped them and instead use $5000 computer polygraphs) DON'T want you to know:

1. On the antiques, the examiner has to assign this point system to every body response on a chart, 40 responses on every chart of a 3-chart exam, so 120 slow hand-scorings total: +1, +2, +3, or -1, -2, -3. This rigid scoring is why there are so many final scores of 'Inconclusive' (Inconclusive= maybe lie, maybe truth, can't decide, too bad for the customer) when using the antiques.

2. Computerized models score body responses far more exacting, assigning fractional & more-exacting points such as '0.8', '1.7' or '2.6' to each of those 120 body response reactions to questions; those fractional differences are very critical when added up using a final scoring system such as the '-7 to +7 System' used by both types.

3. Plus, when the computer does the scoring, there are no personal 'helps' such as being too easy or too hard, and also: nothing can be missed.

4. While old antique analog polygraph instruments make up less than 10% of the instruments in use today, they account for 50% of the complaints of 'false positives' (where a polygraph examiner says 'Fail' and the examinee is not lying).

The bottom line: if an examiner can not afford modern equipment, not wanting to invest in the equipment best for his/her clients, that is a sign that you should call the next examiner.

SOURCE: John Grogan, Polygraph Instructor, Los Angeles/Atlanta/Boise/New York, AmericanPolygraphAcademy.com

Polygraph customers: if your chosen examiner has only an antique polygraph, RUN!

Polygraph customers: if your chosen examiner has only an antique polygraph, RUN!

Buyer beware - INSIST on a computer polygraph - here's what you need to know:

--From the 1950s to the 1980s, polygraph examiners used the old-fashioned polygraph instruments, which were nothing but a roll of chart paper and 4 moving pens.

--Each test produced more than 20 feet of 4 wiggly lines, approximately 120 small body-reaction changes to each be hand-measured by the examiner

--In the early 1990s, about 20 years ago, computerized polygraph instruments arrived. No ink or paper problems, self-scoring, and far more accurate!

--Our Federal government polygraph academy changed to computerized in the mid 90s;
all police and sheriff polygraph units use computerized polygraph instruments;
to use an old antique analog now is almost criminally negligent.

--Almost no real examiner nowadays uses an old antique, but there are a few part-timers that will use them instead of the proper equipment, hoping that the untrained public might not know the difference. Don't be fooled!

--The following are secrets that part-timers who can only afford the old antique analog polygraph instruments ($200 to buy one on eBay, since virtually all professionals of the past 20 years have dumped them and instead use $5000 computer polygraphs) DON'T want you to know:

1. On the antiques, the examiner has to assign this point system to every body response on a chart, 40 responses on every chart of a 3-chart exam, so 120 slow hand-scorings total: +1, +2, +3, or -1, -2, -3. This rigid scoring is why there are so many final scores of 'Inconclusive' (Inconclusive= maybe lie, maybe truth, can't decide, too bad for the customer) when using the antiques.

2. Computerized models score body responses far more exacting, assigning fractional & more-exacting points such as '1.7' or '2.6' to each of those 120 body response reactions to questions; those fractional differences are very critical when added up using a final scoring system such as the '-7 to +7 System' used by both types.

3. Plus, when the computer does the scoring, there are no personal 'helps' such as being too easy or too hard, and also: nothing can be missed.

The bottom line: if an examiner can not afford modern equipment, not wanting to invest in the equipment best for his/her clients, that is a sign that you should call the next examiner.

SOURCE: John Grogan, Polygraph Instructor, Los Angeles/Atlanta/New York, AmericanPolygraphAcademy.com

Los Angeles Private Investigator Lisa Javoric, who specializes in Bank Account Locates and Finding Other Assets, to speak at PI luncheon!

Los Angeles Private Investigator Lisa Javoric, who specializes in Bank Account Locates and Finding Other Assets, to speak at PI luncheon!

She will be sharing some asset-locate secrets & techniques with attendees. She will share the 3 mistakes that most spouses and business partners make when trying to hide a bank account! Seats are limited; usually the 60-seat capacity is filled.

Luncheons are the 3rd Wednesday of each month; she will be the next meeting's speaker. Mwembers of thePIgroup.com only.

Her contact infor is 310-721-5651, LisaJavoric@aol.com, and www.LisaJavoric.com

New York NY Private Investigator License Examination PI Test

Study material & preparation material for the New York Private Investigator License Exam NY PI Test

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How clients of immigration and asylum attorneys can greatly benefit from using polygraph lie-detection

See www.AsylumPolygraph.com

Question- Where can I learn PI basics and specialties?

Question- Where can I learn PI basics and specialties?

Answer- Visit these sites:

-- www.PIacademy.com

-- www.NationalInvestigationAcademy.com

-- www.CertifiedMasterInvestigator.com

Learn Polygraph & Lie Detection at home: no state-license needed in 25 states!

See the 50-pound training package at www.PolygraphAcademy.com

Start today! Here is a list of states that do not have a state-issued polygraph license: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Washington DC, Wisconsin, and Wyoming (Canada too!). Yet many states average LESS than one polygraph examiner available to the public per county.

Note: polygraph is the highest-paid-per-hour of the common investigative specialties.

CMI - Certified Master Investigator certification testing

The updated & revised for 2010 version of this exhaustive nationwide Private Investigator certification testing will be available soon; watch www.thePIgroup.com for more details!

If you completed the comprehensive CMI - Certified Master Investigator testing in the 1990s or in the most recent past decade, your certification (and use of the proprietary CMI designation) is still valid. However, if you would like to tackle the newest version, an upgrade path will be available.

Study material & preparation material for the California CA PI Private Investigator License Exam/Test

Study material & preparation material for the California CA Private Investigator License Examination PI Test

Updated for 2011!

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