Evidence Based Practice Integration into Polygraph Practice: A suggested paradigm
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Data wydania
2021
Autorzy
Tytuł czasopisma
ISSN
1898-5238
eISSN
2380-0550
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Wydawca
Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM
Abstrakt
The philosophy of evidence-based practice advocates professionals to rely on scientific evidence.
Although the idea seems obvious, misuse of the philosophy raised controversy, which created
confusion and misunderstanding of the concept. Yet, since it was introduced in the nineties to
the medical community and despite the controversy, it gained more and more disciples and was embraced by nonmedical practitioners, including the polygraph profession. In the last decades,
the polygraph community has gradually abandoned the intuitive-based polygraph practice that
relies on less scientifically rooted subjective procedures and advanced toward evidence-based
polygraph practice. This paper describes the evidence-based practice in general and details the
practical aspects of evidence-based polygraph practice in particular, along with discussing the
limitations of the current scientific research. It questions the current bone-tone trend to implement
an extreme Evidence-Based approach into the polygraph practice, suggesting the practitioner
to avoid a rigid “one size fit all” standardized protocols which are advocated as a must on
the way to earn scientifi c recognition, whereas, in fact, it is the unfortunate outcome of lack of
diff erential research data. As in the medical field, in-where the Evidence-Based practice managed
to incorporate the clinical experience of experts with the hard research evidence and has
not disregarded their valuable knowledge and experience, the present article calls for adopting
this integrative approach in the polygraph field too and adjust the protocols to the specific circumstances
of the case and the examinee in a “tailor-made” mode, which is based on existing
data and flexible thinking wherever there is no data to rely on, as was suggested under the concept
of “Adaptive-Polygraphy” (Ginton, 2013).
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Słowa kluczowe
Evidence-Based Practice, Polygraph, Comparison Question Test, CQT, Detection of Deception, Adaptive Polygraphy
Źródło
European Polygraph 2021, nr 1, s. 9-28.