The question of the polygraph?

[Alice Purjorick]

Great, then perhaps you can tell me what it is you find so funny (in both sense of the word) about it.

Why?
You asked I answered; subject closed really.
I am sure however if you analyse what you have written and examine the implications you will understand my mirth.

[Alice Purjorick]

I wonder if anyone on here would like to admit to having taken a polygraph ?

I will take a polygraph to determine if I have previously taken one.

[Eleanor]

I wonder if anyone on here would like to admit to having taken a polygraph ?

Nah.  They are probably all in prison for crimes they didn't commit.

[Jean-Pierre]

I will take a polygraph to determine if I have previously taken one.

and there would be a 50% chance of it being right. 

[John]

and there would be a 50% chance of it being right.

Is there not an undecided element?  That would be a 33.333333..% chance surely?

[stephen25000]

Nah.  They are probably all in prison for crimes they didn't commit.

You already know Eleanor, most courts don't use them as direct evidence.

[stephen25000]

and there would be a 50% chance of it being right.

Is that based on a statistical model JP ?

[Eleanor]

You already know Eleanor, most courts don't use them as direct evidence.

You mean The Police don't take them seriously?

[stephen25000]

You mean The Police don't take them seriously?

Ask John.

[Alfred R Jones]

Why?
You asked I answered; subject closed really.
I am sure however if you analyse what you have written and examine the implications you will understand my mirth.

Probably you're hysterical with mirth that I described a hypothetical situation as a fact.  Only a pedant however would dispute the verisimilitude of what I wrote which is that if the McCanns passed a polygraph test, the majority of seasoned "sceptics" would still be convinced they dunnit. 

[Carana]

I will take a polygraph to determine if I have previously taken one.

And whether you were actually on a road which caught you out with a speeding ticket that you didn't yet know about, or your precise alibi when a nearby bank had been burgled?

Innocent or guilty or sort of half and half ... still cold sweat-time, perhaps?

[mercury]

Probably you're hysterical with mirth that I described a hypothetical situation as a fact.  Only a pedant however would dispute the verisimilitude of what I wrote which is that if the McCanns passed a polygraph test, the majority of seasoned "sceptics" would still be convinced they dunnit.

Stop making assumptions and passing them on as true facts then....Alice is the least pedantic in here, I think you probably hold the medal and are projecting, as the know it all psychologists say, hmmm? versimillitudish enough now?

 

[G-Unit]

we have seen a statement saying they are not suspects

Which doesn't mean 'innocent'. The Portuguese authorities said they weren't suspects, and they didn't think they were innocent at the time.

[mercury]

the mccanns are not suspects was said in context not written in stone for evermore

[carol]

If the polygraph isn't 100% reliable, what 's the point? Just imagine if the polygraph found you innocent and you were in fact well and truly guilty.