Here's an interesting little test to try. Can you spot who's lying and who's telling the truth?
http://www.nytimes.com/interac...WEEAD&kwp_0=7349
I scored 9/10 (But is that a lie? 
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Originally Posted by Eugene's Lair:
Here's an interesting little test to try. Can you spot who's lying and who's telling the truth?
http://www.nytimes.com/interac...WEEAD&kwp_0=7349
I scored 9/10 (But is that a lie? )
I like to think I'm quite good at reading people (I'm probably deuded
) and I also got 9 out of 10. I won't say which one as it would spoil it for others who want to take the test, but I wonder if it was the same one we got wrong? It was the only one I dithered over, so the person is a good liar.
BTW, I am telling the truth!
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Eugene's Lair:
Here's an interesting little test to try. Can you spot who's lying and who's telling the truth?
http://www.nytimes.com/interac...WEEAD&kwp_0=7349
I scored 9/10 (But is that a lie? )
I like to think I'm quite good at reading people (I'm probably deuded) and I also got 9 out of 10. I won't say which one as it would spoil it for others who want to take the test, but I wonder if it was the same one we got wrong? It was the only one I dithered over, so the person is a good liar.
BTW, I am telling the truth!
Going by what you've written, it was not the same person I failed over, as I thought one of them was lying when they were in fact telling the truth!
From my own experiences, I think it's very important to go on your gut instinct with these. I find that once you start analysing it you're in danger of trying to rationalize things out, which often leads to getting it badly wrong...
If I have one problem with this test, it's that we know from the very beginning that some of the people are lying, and that will affect how we approach the test. I suspect that in real life (and in particular, because the topics are really just idle chit-chat - they're not about anything particularly important), most of these stories wouldn't raise any major alarm bells because you wouldn't be expecting anyone to lie in the first place. There were perhaps one or two who might raise my suspicions, but it would depend on the rest of the conversation and its context.
As for the general point about "reading people": I'm not sure about "real life", but I often surprise myself by doing well in these sorts of tests. The Radio Times recently did a test where you had to guess the emotion a person was feeling just by looking at photos of their eyes. I scored 8/10 - very high for a man, and even the results guide classified me as "probably a woman". 
Originally Posted by Eugene's Lair:
As for the general point about "reading people": I'm not sure about "real life", but I often surprise myself by doing well in these sorts of tests. The Radio Times recently did a test where you had to guess the emotion a person was feeling just by looking at photos of their eyes. I scored 8/10 - very high for a man, and even the results guide classified me as "probably a woman".
That's the highest compliment Eugene! 