title: A field study on the validity of the Quadri-Track Zone Comparison Technique.
abstract: This field study tested and demonstrated the validity and reliability of the Quadri-Track Zone Comparison Technique designed for specific Single-Issue Psychophysiological Veracity (PV) examinations using the polygraph, using one hundred and forty confirmed real-life cases from a private polygraph firm under contract with a metropolitan police department. The Quadri-Track Zone Comparison Technique's unique Inside Track accurately increased the scores for the innocent by 43.6% and the guilty by 37.1% thereby reducing the overall inconclusive rate from 19.5% to 1.4%, which effectively remedies the major cause (Fear/Hope of Error) of inconclusive results in single-issue polygraph tests. The Quadri-Track Zone Comparison Technique correctly identified 100% of the innocent as truthful with no inconclusives and no errors. It further correctly identified 97.8% of the guilty as deceptive and 2.2% as inconclusive, with no errors. Inconclusives excluded, the Quadri-Track Zone Comparison Technique was 100% accurate in the identification of the innocent and the guilty. Inconclusives included, the utility rate was 98.6%. Blind scoring of polygraph charts showed extremely high correlations for the individual and total scores with a combined accuracy of 98.3%.
authors.affiliation: 8 Warren Way, Amherst, NH 03031, United States. polygraphexam@gmail.com
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Mangan
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Armitage
authors.forename: Gregory C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D003417:Criminal Psychology / Q000379:methods*; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D008014:Lie Detection; D019370:Observation; D011603:Psychophysiology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity