I have heard that the Intoxilyzer 5000 is biased against women. Is that true?
Yes, the Intoxilyzer 5000 is biased against women. When they were calibrating the Intoxilyzer 5000, they used males for calibration subjects. They average male anatomy and average female anatomy is very different. Females have more water on the average than men and because of that their test results from the Intoxilyzer 5000 will be much higher than the test results for men of the same weight who have consumed the same volume of alcohol. The State of Georgia recognizes this in their Intoxilyzer 5000 Operators Manual and makes reference to this very issue and gives credibility to the criticisms from the public that the breath test machine used in the State of Georgia is not fair to women. In fact, when the operators are setting up the machine preparing it for a test, they do not input whether or not the test subject is a male or female, their size, or their weight. Chemistry experts that we have used on many occasions have been successful attacking the results given by the breath test d
