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Interesting Links for 14-05-2019

May 14, 2019 22:11

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Jeremy Kyle woodpijn May 15 2019, 08:50:33 UTC

That article wasn't about the story I expected it to be about. (Turns out it's about six months old, so it wouldn't be.) More recently, a couple went on the show to take a lie detector test to determine whether the husband had been cheating. He insisted he hadn't, but the test said he had, so she dumped him, and a few days later he committed suicide.
Very sad, and largely caused by them both putting such unwarranted faith in the test. She was willing to take it as definite confirmation that he was cheating, and dump him. He (I'm speculating here) was confident enough in his own innocence and in the reliability of the test that he was prepared to take the test on TV to prove to her that he was innocent, and it let him down and destroyed his last hope. The show is definitely at fault for presenting lie detector tests as a reliable way of finding the truth in a disagreement.