Why were so many questions required in the Voight-Kampff test?
In Blade Runner, Deckard says that it takes 20-30 questions to identify a replicant (and a hundred for Rachel).
However, when I saw the movie yesterday, I realised that even after the first question or two it becomes blindingly obvious that the respondents think and act like machines ("I'd kill it!").
The only explanation I can come up with why it then would take dozens of questions, would be that the human population has gone cynical from the apocalypse and all come off as non-empathic.
I can't remember the detail at which the novel describes the Voight-Kampff test, but the logical flaw could possibly have been introduced during the screenwriting process.
Any other explanations or comments?
Best Answer
From the Blade Runner Wikia, the machine:
...measures contractions of the iris muscle and the presence of invisible airborne particles emitted from the body... [The test] is used primarily by Blade Runners to determine if a suspect is truly human by measuring the degree of his empathic response through carefully worded questions and statements.
So it seems it takes more than a few answers to determine if someone is actually human. A human being could just be bored and answer sarcastically, and a replicant could very well fake answering empathically (up to a certain point), so the combination of the answers and the machine analysis would give a definitive answer.
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