This makes me angry
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7983993.stm

And here's why: www.antipolygraph.org/
( Captain V, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 12:38, Reply)

Awesome,
Now I can be lie-detector-proof :D
Thanks!
( Cawl - King Of Wales, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 12:47, Reply)

But we should get them banned!
It's almost incomprehensibly stupid for the Government to be doing this but we're talking about sex offenders (oh noes the kiddy fiddlers) it'd be political suicide for them to go back on this.
( Captain V, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 12:52, Reply)

Yeah...
We shouldn't rely on them.
A test that relies on control-question to establish base-line values is one of the easiest to skew.

I blame Jeremy Kyle. They use it on his show all the time.

And the peasant masses take things on that show as gospel.
Stupid Jeremy Kyle.
( Cawl - King Of Wales, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 12:55, Reply)

stupid peasants too
I couldn't believe it when I heard about this.

this country is run by fucking idiots
( Festivipros Breed crows, and you have lots of crows, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:01, Reply)

This is why
I should be in charge.

Or at least The Minister For Truth And Justice.
( Cawl - King Of Wales, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:03, Reply)

I'm all for that
I'm not stupid and annoying (I think) so I should be safe.

and I only commit victimless crimes.
( Festivipros Breed crows, and you have lots of crows, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:04, Reply)

From what I've been reading Kaol
It's not even as scientific as that...

Apparently it *only* works it the person taking the test believes it will and the tester has tried to increase their fear of being detected. It's completely absurd and has no merit whatsoever.

Even thinking of it as useful but not conclusive is giving it far more than it deserves. I'd love one of the UK terrestrial channels to put together an robust documentary discrediting them but I get the impression it'd fall on deaf ears unless it was done *very* well and even then it'd struggle to influence many people =[
( Captain V, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:06, Reply)

V
they'd probably say it was funded by the oil companies and therefore can't possibly be true.
( Festivipros Breed crows, and you have lots of crows, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:14, Reply)

Are you angry...

because you are a sex offender?
(Naked rape the whores with bows of holly, tra la la la la la la la la Can I play with badness?, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:16, Reply)

No
I'm angry because they'll end up giving the results far more weight than they deserve (that'd be any weight at all) and we risk something like this happening. I'm just glad that (at the moment) they're not using them to try and prove guilt, at least this way nobody innocent should be getting accused of being a sex offender based on pseudo-science.
( Captain V, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:23, Reply)

And because you fuck kids...
( Cawl - King Of Wales, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:48, Reply)

='[
( Captain V, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:55, Reply)

That's exactly the face
The kids pull, after :(
( Cawl - King Of Wales, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 13:56, Reply)

V is only 12
so it's OK
( O Little Downs of Bethlehem [insert Al here], Mon 6 Apr 2009, 15:01, Reply)