Yeah, that last question seems like a bit of a cheat. For the other questions the contestant can be pretty sure of the truth of their answer, embarrasing as it might be.
I’m suspect of the lie detector. If the thing is 95% reliable, which is generous, you only have a 1/3 chance of making it through 21 questions.
Aaaaand the real truth comes out. Surprise surprise.
Tough luck, honey. He can do waaaaay better than you.
That doesn’t sound like anything we didn’t already know. Of course they were there for money and fame, thats why everyone does it. The thing is they can make anybody lose if they want too. The questions asked on the show have already been asked of the contestants and as far as i know they don’t know wether they passed or failed, so something as simple as “do you think you are a good person” is in reality a guaranteed loss since the show already knows she missed it. Unless she changes her answer, which she has no reason too if she doesn’t know the results.
Perhaps it’s one thing to sit there and answer 50 yes/no questions in a room alone with a polygraph administrator providing no feedback… and another entirely to sit for 45 minutes in front of hundreds of people booing every answer you give. If it were may… maybe I would think twice before saying I was a good person in front of America.
Hold on a sec…there’s an actual polygraph being used on the show, in real time, for every answer? Not a prop? Not some cheesy means of dragging it out? And its results count even if they go against the previous results?
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Forget it, this is Pit material. (Like you couldn’t guess. 
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I will say, though, that I admire the admirable sacrifice she made. She just wrecked her marriage, and she got NOTHING for it because the show played dirty. Everyone who’s seen it knows that baring one’s soul on Moment of Truth is nothing but a colossal pointless waste. An incredibly noble sacrifice for the sake of the truth. (Of course, this leaves the question of where the hell the show is going to go from here, but that’s hardly my problem, is it?)
No, no polygraph, not even a prop.
The polygraph is used prior to airing the show. The true/false given during the show is based on the results of the polygraph.
Feel free to beat me about the head and face with the naïve stick if you will, but was the whole “we had serious reservations about showing this” spiel just a bunch of specious theatrics, or did they really think long and hard about it?
Yeah, I forgot to specify no live polygraph. :smack:
Wait, so in other words, the contestant has to guess what the polygraph judged the answer to be regardless of what the truth is??
Yeesh. The more I learn about this show, the dumber it sounds. This isn’t horrifying truths and livelihoods on the line, this is Card Sharks at 1/10th speed.
Let’s not kid ourselves: There will always be plausible deniability. All this woman has to say is that she was really nervous during the questioning and gave out a lot of false yeses or that she was just hamming it up for some cheap publicity. Barring an ex-boyfriend ponying up DNA evidence or a notarized testimonial on her honeymoon, who’s going to prove her wrong?
I’d be surprised if this makes it to episode 60. It’s going to run out of steam faster than Big Brother.