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6/10 but some of them were probably indeed lying about their answers regardless of whether they said they weren't.

Example: the lady who loved Beyonce. Stone cold liar.
 
6/10 shit. It's weird what that could say about you (not that it's exactly scientific).
 
7/10. I wasn't crazy about some of the questions they asked. I didn't really feel there was a compelling reason to lie on some of the questions, so it tripped me up somewhat.
 
5/10

Beyonce lady was totally lying. I also didn't think the first one was lying. Yes, her eyes kind of drifted, but she was ready with that answer. Were they actors?
 
It's kind of a guilty pleasure ( >_>), reading poetry (<_< ), it evokes all sorts of (^_^ ) emoootions, and feelings ( V_V)...

7/10
 
I hope you all realize that, as this from a psychology experiment (not on them but us), they are most probably lying about the lying.

4 out of ten on both
 
happypup said:
I hope you all realize that, as this from a psychology experiment (not on them but us), they are most probably lying about the lying.

4 out of ten on both
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So perhaps they're all lying and the clearly bad liars, we are assured, were actually lying while the good liars, we are told, were telling the truth. Something like that? Because to me it seemed like some of them were acting poorly badly, whereas others could easily have been lying but were much more natural in their reactions to the questions.
 
I think I cluttered it up for myself. I got caught up in the details. What is 'lying'? Do you have to completely fabricate something, right on the spot? Do you prepare and then tell the lie? Also, like the girl with the library story, it was really tough saying if she was just strange, or if she was caught up because she was telling a lie. Should have some baseline questions, really.
 
Yoshichan said:
Interesting how some consider the "Obama-guy" to have been the easiest, respectively hardest one to figure out.
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Yeah, like I said everything about him told me he was lying, but the fact that he took so long and the best lie he could come up with was Obama made me question my initial reaction. When you are gonna lie you usually don't take such a long pause, as say someone actually trying to recall an answer. I thought he would have been able to craft a lie much quicker and better for that question.

Yasae said:
6/10 but some of them were probably indeed lying about their answers regardless of whether they said they weren't.

Example: the lady who loved Beyonce. Stone cold liar.
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Yeah, that Beyonce girl really fucking seems like she is lying, everything about that answer seemed like a lie. But, it seems she really does like Beyonce.
 
I got 9/10 on the video one on NYT. I did the "real" one with only voice and got 9/10 again, which really surprised me. I didn't think I would do that well with just the voice. I thought beforehand I would get 7/10 and I thought afterwards but preresults I would get 5/10. Trust yo gut.
 
OpinionatedCyborg said:
So perhaps they're all lying and the clearly bad liars, we are assured, were actually lying while the good liars, we are told, were telling the truth. Something like that? Because to me it seemed like some of them were acting, really badly, whereas others could easily have been lying but were much more natural about it.
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Who knows? However from my brief experience in one psychology class, I took away one important fact about the experimental design for these types of experiments, and it was that it is very important that the participant doesn't know what the nature of the experiment is.

Also I had to justify my worse than chance results.
 
Septimius said:
I think I cluttered it up for myself. I got caught up in the details. What is 'lying'? Do you have to completely fabricate something, right on the spot? Do you prepare and then tell the lie? Also, like the girl with the library story, it was really tough saying if she was just strange, or if she was caught up because she was telling a lie. Should have some baseline questions, really.
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The nature of the experiment also tripped me up. I assumed that what happened was a person is told that they are the "liar" but they don't know the questions beforehand, thus they have to lie on the spot. But, the first girl (which I got right) spitted out that Disney answer so quick that it seemed rehearsed and not on the spot, so I dunno.
 
9/10 here

The people telling the truth all sort of had expressions that showed that they had to stop and think about the question and their answer for it.

The liars all seemed prepared to answer, especially that one chick who looked like she was reciting something and working out the script in her head. Also some of those fake answers were so cliché that they could never be taken truthfully.

"Oh my best memory was when I was 5 and saw cinderella's castle"

bull-fucking-shit detected.
 
5/10. *sigh*

foxtrot3d said:
Yeah, like I said everything about him told me he was lying, but the fact that he took so long and the best lie he could come up with was Obama made me question my initial reaction. When you are gonna lie you usually don't take such a long pause, as say someone actually trying to recall an answer. I thought he would have been able to craft a lie much quicker and better for that question.
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Really? I would think that you'd answer the question quicker if you're telling the truth since there would only be one possible answer. When lying, your pool of answers expands, so you have to choose something and make up a least a semi-convincing story to go along with it. That would take more time to do than when telling the truth.

That's not the entire reason why I pegged him as a liar, though. It shouldn't take 30 seconds to peg Barack Obama, of all people, as your role model lol. At least say the name at the beginning or something.
 
Dammit, 6/10 lol.

2 threw me off because of how long he took to answer, thought he was formulating a lie, but I guess it is a difficult question.

4 threw me off because Beyonce (sorry guys, lol).

9 got me because of the story about the other class, thought that was too specific and random to make up on the spot.

And finally 10 because of that deadpan glare. Could have sworn he was lying, haha.

I'm bad at this.
 
Missed Beyonce and Obama one. Bullshit at that woman, what the hell kind of expressions were those.

A lot of the lies were easy to tell by how instant the response was, the truth ones tended to think more(which makes it seem like they were JUST told beforehand and given basically no prep time).
 
I got 5/5 on videos that I only played for 5 seconds, and 2/5 on videos where I watched the whole thing.

7/10 overall.

Beyonce girl threw me off.
 
10/10

The girl at the end is a super bad liar.

You can tell by the transitions in their speaking if they're telling the truth. It was easier for me to spot who was telling the truth then who was lying.
 
8/10 what messed me up with two early on is I read comments in this thread that said how they sounded like they were making things up and awkward pauses. I thought favorite movie girl and some other dude were telling the truth but since I read a few comments on here I thought they were lying. Looks like if I went with my instinct I wouldve been fine. Beyonce girl didn't seem like she was lying, it seemed like she either was embarrassed to admit it or was debating on who to say.
 
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