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McQuiston-Ford Algorithm

The McQuiston-Ford algorithm is often cited as a method that is used in Voice Stress Analysis. Charles R. McQuiston and Wilson H. Ford are two of the trio of inventors (also Allan D. Bell, Jr.) at Dektor Counterintelligence and Security Inc. (not to be confused with Dektor Corporation) who invented the original Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE) around 1970. Dektor Counterintelligence and Security Inc. was dissolved as a corporation in 1997.

The interesting thing about the McQuiston-Ford algorithm is that it get's mentioned but never described.

DOES IT REALLY EXIST?

Dirk Bell contacted Wilson H. Ford VIA e-mail asking about the "McQuiston-Ford Algorithm". In his e-mail response (August 26, 2014), Mr. Ford, who moved on to other pursuits decades ago, said he had no idea what people were talking about when they mentioned the "McQuiston-Ford Algorithm". So, someone unrelated to the developers of the PSE made up the the descriptive phrase,

It is interesting that the "McQuiston-Ford Algorithm" has been mentioned, but not described, in government studies, scientific papers... .