"A Meta-Analytic Survey of Criterion Accuracy of Validated Polygraph Techniques was conducted by an Ad-Hoc committee at the direction of the Board of Directors of the American Polygraph Association to review and analyze the status of the scientifi c literature on psychophysiological veracity examinations using the polygraph and evidence in the form of published research supporting the various polygraph techniques. Th e fi nal 113-page report was published in Polygraph, Journal of the American Polygraph Association, Volume 40, Issue 4, 2011. Th is Meta-Analytic Survey was chaired by Michael Gougler with Raymond Nelson as Principal Investigator and Donald Krapohl, Mark Handler, Pam Shaw, and Leonard Bierman as committee members."(...)