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Polygraphing used to marry off dad
Jul 12th, 2003 at 2:28am
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I was watching an Entertainment show today and apparently there will be a show called "Marry my Dad."  The premise is that 4 adult siblings are interviewing and doing background checks on single women in order to determine who should marry their dad.  The selection process includes a polygraph test.

Just in channel flipping, I've also seen polygraphing being used in determining paternity on day time talk shows.

Any opinions?
  
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Re: Polygraphing used to marry off dad
Reply #1 - Jul 12th, 2003 at 3:21am
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PapaBlueMarlin wrote on Jul 12th, 2003 at 2:28am:
I was watching an Entertainment show today and apparently there will be a show called "Marry my Dad."  The premise is that 4 adult siblings are interviewing and doing background checks on single women in order to determine who should marry their dad.  The selection process includes a polygraph test.

Just in channel flipping, I've also seen polygraphing being used in determining paternity on day time talk shows.

Any opinions?


Intriguing. Here's an area for someone to do a PhD thesis on, review rape and paternity cases where poly's were given and physical evidence preserved to test the validity of polygraph results. This would take a lot of legwork but could be valuable as genetic tests have taken the uncertainty out of paternity and many rapes.

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Reply #2 - Jul 12th, 2003 at 4:50am
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Yeah, I also liked the fact that sometimes polygraphing was used as an alternative to DNA testing.  Real amusing...
  
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Reply #3 - Jul 13th, 2003 at 1:28am
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PapaBlueMarlin,
Considering that DNA matching is only 99.7% accurate, why not defer to the 100% accurate polygraph test Wink
  

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