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I wonder if there was a reliable method to spot lying if efforts would be made to keep it secret in the same way that broken ciphers are.
On a serious note, there is no way to know on a sophisticated liar, and there are 1000 tell tales on a bad liar.
As my grandmother used to say: "One lie leads to another. Tell the truth because lying is too much work." I would also add that getting caught lying severely destroys trust and so isn't conducive to society either.
If it is a politician, you will know as soon their lips are moving /s On a serious note, there is no way to know on a sophisticated liar, and there are 1000 tell tales on a bad liar.
Presidential debates would be interesting. If we still had such debates or presidential elections after that :)
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It's a book, by Malcolm Gladwell. The comment said the audiobook is like a good podcast.
If it's a book by Malcolm Gladwell, I can't anti-recommend it enough. All of the Malcolm Gladwell books I've read have been tripe. Unless he has radically improved his writing and grasp of nuance in the last decade (and published retractions of his earlier books), his books are dangerous anti-knowledge which will make you feel smarter but actually be dumber. Gladwell takes an obvious, folksy thing, adds a bit of a tw…
He tells a decent story, and you feel like you've learn something after reading him. Scratch below the surface, and it turns out you haven't.
"The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time -- and then shut up." -- Robert A. Heinlein
To be honest, I do the opposite: I intentionally play with random people by telling them truths in a manner that comes across as lying.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a book, by Malcolm Gladwell. The comment said the audiobook is like a good podcast.
If it's a book by Malcolm Gladwell, I can't anti-recommend it enough. All of the Malcolm Gladwell books I've read have been tripe. Unless he has radically improved his writing and grasp of nuance in the last decade (and published retractions of his earlier books), his books are dangerous anti-knowledge which will make you feel smarter but actually be dumber. Gladwell takes an obvious, folksy thing, adds a bit of a tw…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a book, by Malcolm Gladwell. The comment said the audiobook is like a good podcast.
If it's a book by Malcolm Gladwell, I can't anti-recommend it enough. All of the Malcolm Gladwell books I've read have been tripe. Unless he has radically improved his writing and grasp of nuance in the last decade (and published retractions of his earlier books), his books are dangerous anti-knowledge which will make you feel smarter but actually be dumber. Gladwell takes an obvious, folksy thing, adds a bit of a tw…
Most of us can’t reliably tell when a romantic interest is actively signaling their mutual interest. If we can’t get cooperative activities right, most of us don’t have a chance to spot a liar through nonverbal cues. The fact is that random effects are huge when dealing with people. Is that person you’re interrogating not showing emotion because they’re a psychopath, or because they were taught not to display emotion…
David Simon's book, Homicide, has an apropos section: """Terry McLarney once mused that the best way to unsettle a suspect would be to post in all three interrogation rooms a written list of those behavior patterns that indicate deception: Uncooperative. Too cooperative. Talks too much. Talks too little. Gets his story perfectly straight. Fucks his story up. Blinks too much, avoids eye contact. Doesn’t blink. Stares.…
I'd like to see some hot-shot detective try to get a random number from 1-1000 out of my head by using those techniques. Yeah, he couldn't.
In summary, you lose the moment you agree to talk.