{"id":2342,"date":"2011-12-05T17:58:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T17:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butcherbaker.net\/wordpress\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2011-12-05T17:58:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T17:58:32","slug":"lies-liars-and-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/butcherbaker\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/05\/lies-liars-and-bs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, Liars and BS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police, prosecutors, judges and juries all have a vested interest in determining when someone is lying. The same can be said of diplomats, entrepreneurs and investors. And, you know, parents.
\nWe have all seen the use of polygraph machines on TV, though they are not admissible in court. They are quite unreliable<\/a>; ten percent of liars pass and twenty percent of truth tellers fail. So, 30 percent<\/em> of the time, polygraph tests grab the wrong people. Remember that statistic.
\nNow Anne Eisenberg reports for the New York Times about software that listens for lies<\/a>. No clumsy machine need apply; this emerging field studies what scientists call “emotional speech,” the language of deception, friendship and anger.
\nBefore we dip our toes too deeply in these waters, let us remember that lying is an engrained part of human life. In a landmark study<\/a> from the late ’90s, researchers found that college students reported telling two lies a day, in what amounted to one out of three of their social interactions (33%). Community members told one lie a day, in what amounted to one out of five social interactions (20%). The range of lies told is noteworthy. There were:<\/p>\n