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TV episodes edit
A lot of space in this article - most of the section “Society and culture” - was taken up by recounting TV shows in which a polygraph is used to supposedly solve a case or reveal the truth. IMO this coverage was way excessive and added little or no relevant information to the article - and most of it was unsourced to boot. I have provided sources for a few of the more directly relevant items. The others were detailed retellings of a particular episode of a TV show in which a polygraph is featured, either to reveal the truth or to fool the machine. None of them was referenced and I have deleted them all. Anyone object? If so, please explain why you think they are significant and provide references. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:14, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
Effective edit
Johndoe2230 I don't know what you mean by "are 98% effective". Effectiveness is neither reliability nor validity, so I don't know what you mean. I cannot make heads or tails of it. How do you define effectiveness? How do you measure it? What are WP:RS for it? What you wrote is grammatically correct, but it does not have meaning. In plaintext: tell us where did you read that polygraph examinations are 98% effective. Tgeorgescu (talk) 23:02, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
Uncited material in need of citations edit
I am moving the following uncited material here until it can be properly supported with inline citations of reliable, secondary sources, per WP:V, WP:CS, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, WP:BLP, WP:NOR, et al. This diff shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 17:41, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Quickfix1: It is true what you say, but it needs a source. tgeorgescu (talk) 22:49, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
- Service: That refers to this reinsertion of one of the paragraphs below. --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:57, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
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"Junk science"? edit
Even though a few sources are cited, should it really be referred to as "junk science"? This doesn't sound very neutral. 2601:49:8400:26B:F89F:F8CE:B532:A6BB (talk) 14:01, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- "Neutral" does not mean "some say this, some say that" on Wikipedia. It means "follow where the sources go". See WP:FALSEBALANCE. --Hob Gadling (talk) 14:13, 4 April 2024 (UTC)