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Re: How can you tell if someone is lying?

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Post by nosianu » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 9:22 AM UTC

Robin_Message wrote: post #221

nosianu wrote: post #169

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Thank you for making my point. Your comment is as vague and nebulous as you say Gladwell's stories are. Neither does he claim to publish scientific papers, last time I checked those were "popular science" category books like millions of others. I'm not sure what value there is in singling out one guy, or to point out the gigantic discrepancy between a scientific paper and a popular book, especially when it's done wor…

Sorry to have scared you. I don't think pointing out the scientific illiteracy and anti-knowledge in his books is far worse than the books themselves, but YMMV. I commented on a relevant thread in the hope of saving someone else the time wasted reading them, and if I'm honest, because I'm still salty about the money and time he stole from me. I criticise it in the same wa as if someone was expounding homeopathy or a…

> Sorry to have scared you.

Thank you for supporting my point! You demonstrate the very low level very well. Badly hidden snark akin to personal attacks instead of arguments. Exactly my point about that.. "criticism" of that author, far worse than anything I ever read or heard from him and at least an order of magnitude lower level intellectually, if not more.

Re: How can you tell if someone is lying?

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Post by LocalPCGuy » Tue, Apr 06, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

Applejinx wrote: post #234

LocalPCGuy wrote: post #80

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I went through a screening with a "robot" - in quotes because it was literally a breadboard with a bunch of wires sticking out of it, a battery and a squarish box. Didn't even have to open the bag to show the agents what it was, went right through the scanner with no comment. And I was nervous as hell cause I was sure I was going to have to explain it, maybe even show that it worked. But nope, not a peep.

How white are you, out of curiosity? What's your demographic look like, and how closely did it match the screeners? Seems like if you were nervous that would be additional weighting in the direction of you being questioned, so the additional weighting doesn't seem to have motivated anything.

I am white male, and it was in a Southern US airport that was also very white. While that wasn't the point of the anecdote, I'm also fairly confident it played a large part in there being zero follow-up questions.

Re: How can you tell if someone is lying?

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Post by LocalPCGuy » Tue, Apr 06, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #245

Applejinx wrote: post #234

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How white are you, out of curiosity? What's your demographic look like, and how closely did it match the screeners? Seems like if you were nervous that would be additional weighting in the direction of you being questioned, so the additional weighting doesn't seem to have motivated anything.

Before we jump to “how white are you?”, it may make sense to ask “was there anything that could possibly have been the explosive?” Random wires, breadboards, etc aren’t going to explode without a source of fuel.

It was tucked into a backpack along with quite a few other things (including 2 soldering irons, actually). I don't remember exactly what else was in the bag as to whether there was anything that could have looked like fuel in the scanner though, so fair point potentially. However, while it wasn't the point of my anecdote, I'm also fairly confident being white was one of the factors that played into zero questions being asked.