The Jeremy Kyle Show test Jeremy Kyle performed a live on stage test with the question "are you, or have you ever been a llama?" which he replied yes, which was identified as a lie. Research indicates that results are little better than chance. A critic in "The Guardian" comments that "Kyle regularly claims the lie detector is 96 per cent accurate, whereas a 1997 survey of 421 psychologists estimated it to be 61 per cent. Or not much better than chance." An on-screen disclaimer is now shown before lie detector results are read out on the programme, stating, "The lie detector is designed
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