Polygraphing used to marry off dad

[PapaBlueMarlin]

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?

[Marty]

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.

-Marty

[PapaBlueMarlin]

Yeah, I also liked the fact that sometimes polygraphing was used as an alternative to DNA testing.  Real amusing...

[orolan]

PapaBlueMarlin,
Considering that DNA matching is only 99.7% accurate, why not defer to the 100% accurate polygraph test