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How confident are you in your ability to detect lies?
  • You can't fool me
    5%
  • Fairly confident
    22.1%
  • I can tell sometimes
    56.1%
  • Literally cannot tell
    16.7%
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i read a book about lie detection by a former FBI interrogator and it’s been awhile but iirc the gist of it was “you can tell whether people are stressed out / tense but you can’t necessarily tell if it’s because they’re lying or something else”
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i think generally we can tell whether people are being dishonest, which is not quite the same as lying, but it’s difficult to really confront how much of the time this is. i feel a visceral sense of believing what people say maybe 5% of the time or less
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I have that visceral sense of believing what people say far more frequently than 5% of the time Like even when people are obviously joking, if they aren't laughing then it often takes me a few seconds to remember that not everything is the truth Can be very confusing
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