No, she said Christian. The host asked her “what do you look for in a man?” and she said “he has to be a strong Christian. I have very conservative beliefs.” That’s when I gave her the finger.
It was her mother that rang the bell, but her sister that was yelping about the question being too “personal.”
There was nothing to indicate that the contestants were connected to any kind of polygraph equipment, unless they are using some kind of voice stress analyzer. The contestants also moved around quite a bit and were allowed to give lengthy explanations with their answers, so I don’t think a standard polygraph would have worked very well anyway.
As stated before, they were probably being judged on how they anwered questions they had previously answered on a questionaire. If that is so, and they are truly playing for the money, there is no reason to lie since they know what they have to say to pass. I don’t know how much the contestants are coached to “act” for the show, but several times they would wait in anticipation for the verdict answer to be given, as if they were unsure about whether they would pass or not.
Most of the questions were designed specifically for each contestant, based on information they had already provided the show. The host would then procede the question with another to set up for the money question, which made things interesting because you wanted to try and guess what the money question would be based on the prelim question and answer.
I thought it strange that one contestant was eliminated for “lying” about whether he had stuffed his underwear while working as an underwear model. He said “No”, but they said it was a lie. He seemed stunned at the verdict and exclaimed, “No way!”. OK, the question was embarassing, but more in a humorous way than anything else. Considering the earlier questions he answered that really made him look bad and sleazy, why would he lie about this one if he knew the show already had the correct answer?
It is probably a more enjoyable show if you don’t know all the particulars about how the show is done and operates, but of course, us Dopers need to know.
I thought this show sounded like it would be fun, but I have watched 2 episodes and am done with it. First, because the teasers for the show grossly mischaracterized and exaggerated what actually ends up happening with the pageant girl, and second, because I don’t believe the lie detector gave an accurate assessment of the guy’s answers who comes after her. This doesn’t surprise me, but it kind of ruins the fun.
ETA: The way the show works, according to wikipedia, is that they are asked 50 some questions off camera, while hooked up to a lie detector. They are then asked a subset of the questions on camera, but they don’t know which ones they will be. Their answer on camera has to match what the lie detector “believes” to be true based on the earlier questionning.
Well, let’s just hope she doesn’t want him to be Irish or anything.
I don’t think that’s how it works. There’s a first phase of participation, where the contestant is lie-detected in the normal sense, complete with attachments and sitting still and control questions and such. That’s in advance of ever going on stage. Then AFTER that takes place, the contestant is put on-air, and asked the same questions (or a subset of them). Their on-air questions must match the “truthfulness” of their polygraph questions. In other words, if they were detected as lying on the polygraph when they said “yes”, if they say “no” on-air, the answer is called false.
I saw bits and pieces of last week’s episode, and loved it in a very guilty way. I missed last night’s, but apparently they are going to put it up on the Fox website at some point.
Anyway, my only point is that in the case of the beauty pageant, did anyone else think her sister looked really hot until they showed below her chest, and you discovered that her belly was as proportionally big?
/really shallow, I know
//but true
I recorded the show and watched the whole show in less than 10 minutes. All you had to do was fast-forward to the next question on the screen, wait a few seconds for the answer, and fast-forward again.
It was still boring.
I think you have that backwards. If they were detected as lying on the polygraph when they said “yes,” the truthful answer would be “no.” Ergo, if they said “no” on-air, the answer is true.
Yeah, that’s right. Thanks.