No, there’s no scientific backing to really confidently say that no two fingerprints are alike. That doesn’t change that we can identify them and match them.
If you observe that fingerprints can be matched, that’s all you need to know.
Meh, they do work. They just measure stress response, not truthfulness. The idea being that you’ll have a heightened stress response to a question you are lying about the answer to, which may or may not be accurate depending on individual and situation.
So they don’t work. They’re nothing more than pseudo-science gobbled up by “Truth, Justice, And The American Way” boomers who also watch NCIS and cheer when they blow up the bad guys on the big screen.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
There’s no scientific backing to fingerprints? Whaat
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No, there’s no scientific backing to really confidently say that no two fingerprints are alike. That doesn’t change that we can identify them and match them.
If you observe that fingerprints can be matched, that’s all you need to know.
Now lie detectors don’t work at all…
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Meh, they do work. They just measure stress response, not truthfulness. The idea being that you’ll have a heightened stress response to a question you are lying about the answer to, which may or may not be accurate depending on individual and situation.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So they don’t work. They’re nothing more than pseudo-science gobbled up by “Truth, Justice, And The American Way” boomers who also watch NCIS and cheer when they blow up the bad guys on the big screen.