So the other day my BS meter was full. I had exceeded my annual quota for the year and lucky for me it has occurred very close to the end of the year. I know to set it just a bit higher for next year with an annual increase.
The formula I use is take the number of lies I know people told me, times that by .25 because I’m sure I bought a few that were plausible and gave people the benefit of the doubt. Then take 20 percent of that number and add to it the increase percent of inflation, population growth and the number of years without a raise. This gives me a pretty fair guess about how much I’ll be lied to in the year. Then I set my expectations accordingly.
This is helpful because it keeps me from saying to people with whom I’m speaking really you are going to sell me that story. I don’t even know you and could come up with a story that is more plausible than that crap.
Which, if I did go ballistic on someone I could loose my job and that would be a bad thing.
But the other day the person was telling me a whooper and I said well you know I just don’t believe what you are telling me. They looked at me like well why not and then started the story over. I said at the end of the second verse same as the first, that is what you just told me, I still don’t believe that is true. The person wasn’t sure what to do then but start the same story again for the third time. With no new details or even a change of words. Even when telling the truth you’ll change it up a little but the main facts are consistent.
Now I’m not a human lie detector and I don’t think polygraphs are anything more than a way to measure someone’s discomfort with saying certain things. Certainly some people are uncomfortable telling a lie, but some people are not even a little uncomfortable with a lie.
Hook most women up to the machine and have them say the word Moist and you’ll get a detection for a lie, ask a little kid if they believe in Santa and you’ll see a truthful statement.
And there is one of the things about polygraphs that make them useless as truth or lie detectors. If you believe what you are saying is the truth and you aren’t nervous about being locked in a room with a detective or agent then you’ll pass.
But if you are an introvert, have some social anxiety issues, you might have the person thinking you are lying about your own name even with 20 people saying yes that is that person. Well the machine says it’s not. Sorry the computer says, “No”.
The thing is without any physical evidence you simply do not know what a person is telling is true. Not even if they tell you it is true, even when the information is damaging to the persons reputation, because you don’t know maybe the person wants to be disreputable.
You can certainly guess that things are true or not and little pieces of evidence help to support your guess one way or the other.
In other news,
My eyes hurt and I need coffee.
Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely
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