by Quality Control Committee | Nov 23, 2022
A hypothesis proposed by Martin Orne that a deceptive examinee would not be as detectible by an examiner who conducts a polygraph examination on behalf of the examinee’s attorney because the examinee has no fear of adverse consequences. All field studies that have...
by Quality Control Committee | Nov 22, 2022
Abbreviated form of the 7-position scale for PDD test data analysis. The major difference is that the range of values for each comparison is from -1 to +1, rather than the range of -3 to +3 in the 7-position scoring system. This process is based on the simple and...
by Quality Control Committee | Nov 22, 2022
System for assigning values to individual physiological responses in PDD, based on differential responding to relevant and comparison questions. The values in 7-position scoring are whole numbers between -3 and +3. By convention, negative values represent greater...
by Quality Control Committee | Nov 23, 2022
(L: from what comes later). That which is done after the experiment. This expression is commonly seen in research. An example of a typical a posteriori decision is post hoc statistical analyses of data that had not been anticipated by the experimenters. Opposed to a...
by Quality Control Committee | Nov 23, 2022
(L: from what precedes). Refers to that which is done before the conduct of an experiment. An example is the number and type of subjects to be recruited for the study, or the alpha level for a PDD test result to be considered significant. Opposed to a...
