Clipmarks | jklugman's 'deception' clips

Babies not as innocent as they pretend

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:45:17 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time. Yet it now appears that babies learn to deceive from a far younger age than anyone previously suspected.

Behavioural experts have found that infants begin to lie from as young as six months. Simple fibs help to train them for more complex deceptions in later life.

Until now, psychologists had thought the developing brains were not capable of the difficult art of lying until four years old.

Following studies of more than 50 children and interviews with parents, Dr Vasudevi Reddy, of the University of Portsmouth's psychology department, says she has identified seven categories of deception used between six months and three-years-old.

"It demonstrates they're clearly able to distinguish that what they are doing will have an effect. This is essentially all adults do when they tell lies, except in adults it becomes more morally loaded."

Tags: science, research, babies, pretending, lying, evolution

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking - 6 Rules

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:10:40 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes

Clip Source: www.csicop.org

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking

The six rules of evidential reasoning are my own distillation and simplification of the scientific method. To make it easier for students to remember these half-dozen guidelines, I've coined an acronym for them: Ignoring the vowels, the letters in the word "FiLCHeRS" stand for the rules of Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness, Honesty, Replicability, and Sufficiency. Apply these six rules to the evidence offered for any claim, I tell my students, and no one will ever be able to sneak up on you and steal your belief. You'll be filch-proof.

Falsifiability

It must be possible to conceive of evidence that would prove the claim false.

Logic

Any argument offered as evidence in support of any claim must be sound.

Comprehensiveness

The evidence offered in support of any claim must be exhaustive -- that is all of the available evidence must be considered.

Honesty

The evidence offered in support of any claim must be evaluated without self-deception.

Replicability

If the evidence for any claim is based upon an experimental result, or if the evidence offered in support of any claim could logically be explained as coincidental, then it is necessary for the evidence to be repeated in subsequent experiments or trials.

Sufficiency

The evidence offered in support of any claim must be adequate to establish the truth of that claim, with these stipulations:

the burden of proof for any claim rests on the claimant,
extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and
evidence based upon authority and/or testimony is always inadequate for any paranormal claim

James Lett

Tags: thinking, knowledge, skeptic, skepticism, logic, evidence, science, philosophy, falsifiability

How to Detect Lies

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:24:26 GMT

clipped by: coecoe321

Clip Source: www.blifaloo.com

Signs of Deception:

Body Language of Lies:

• Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar takes up less space.

• A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact.

Emotional Gestures & Contradiction

• Timing and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are off a normal pace. The display of emotion is delayed, stays longer it would naturally, then stops suddenly.

• Timing is off between emotions gestures/expressions and words. Example: Someone says "I love it!" when receiving a gift, and then smile after making that statement, rather then at the same time the statement is made.

• Gestures/expressions don’t match the verbal statement, such as frowning when saying “I love you.”

Interactions and Reactions

• A guilty person gets defensive. An innocent person will often go on the offensive.

• A liar is uncomfortable facing his questioner/accuser and may turn his head or body away.

• A liar might unconsciously place objects (book, coffee cup, etc.) between themselves and you.

Verbal Context and Content

• A liar will use your words to make answer a question. When asked, “Did you eat the last cookie?” The liar answers, “No, I did not eat the last cookie.”

• The guilty person may speak more than natural, adding unnecessary details to convince you... they are not comfortable with silence or pauses in the conversation.

• Words may be garbled and spoken softly, and syntax and grammar may be off. In other
words, his sentences will likely be muddled rather than emphasized.

Obviously, just because someone exhibits one or more of these signs does not make them a liar. The above behaviors should be compared to a persons base (normal) behavior whenever possible.

Tags: psychology, lies

"Invisible" people

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:25:18 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: She got the idea for her unusual art from the increasing use of "Big Brother" surveillance.

She said: "I'd like people to consider what it means to let the government control our daily lives.

"When we are controlled we hand over our individual responsibilities to the state. I wanted to make a suit for the non-criminal citizen whose house is being watched 24 hours by street surveillance cameras. I'm also responding to a wish to disappear."

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Spot the 'invisible' men and women in artist's amazing photographs

In the natural world, the chameleon blends in perfectly with its background.

In the urban jungle, Desiree Palmen decided to attempt the same visual deception.

Miss Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, uses a method that requires a huge amount of effort and attention to detail.

She makes cotton suits and paints the camouflage on by hand, painstakingly matching it to the chosen background. Either she or a model then poses in the suit in the chosen place.

The scenes are photographed and filmed and then put on display.

"People always react strongly when they see my work," she said.

Desk deception: What appears to be a pile of papers is in fact a hunched figure

Blending library: Is that a pair of legs standing in front of book-laden shelves?

Flight of fancy: Camouflage by the stairs (left), Alley illusion: A human turned to stone

Bush: "Far too many people know far too much." Lies

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:37:52 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.iht.com

White House of mirrors

Published: June 24, 2007

George W. Bush has turned the executive branch into a two-way mirror. They get to see everything Americans do: our telephone calls, e-mail, and all manner of personal information. And we get to see nothing about what they do.

Everyone knows this administration has disdained openness and accountability since its first days. That is about the only thing it does not hide. But recent weeks have produced disturbing disclosures about just how far Bush's team is willing to go to keep lawmakers and the public in the dark.

That applies to big issues - like the CIA's secret prisons

it used the Patriot Act to snoop on domestic phone calls, e-mail and financial transactions of ordinary people

Gonzales was not protecting anybody's rights or America's reputation

refused to say whether the United States had ever sent a prisoner to another country knowing he would be tortured.

still stonewalling about the existence of CIA prisons.

Tags: deception, lies, prisoners, cia, secret

Why Are We So Bad at Spotting Lies?

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:03:34 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: By nature, we are a rather trustful species and (unless you lie or detect lies for a living) chances are good that you harbor false assumptions of what deceitful behavior looks like.

So says famous psychologist Richard Wiseman in this summary of his research into the universal, cross-cultural trait of human deception. Among other things, Wiseman shows that by the time they are five, even our own kids can fool us with ease and abandon!

The simple fact is that the real clues to deceit are in the words that people use, not the body language.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

almost everyone thinks liars tend to avert their gaze, nervously wave their hands around and shift about in their seats.

There is, however, one small problem.

Liars are just as likely as truth-tellers to look you in the eye, they don't move their hands around nervously and they don't shift about in their seats (if anything, they are a little more static than truth-tellers). People fail to detect lies because they are basing their opinions on behaviours that are not actually associated with deception.

So what are the signals that really give away a liar? It is obvious that the more information you give away, the greater the chances of some of it coming back to haunt you. As a result, liars tend to say less and provide fewer details than truth-tellers.

Liars often try psychologically to distance themselves from their falsehoods, and so tend to include fewer references to themselves in their stories.

Tags: lies, lying, deception, human, psychology, wiseman, behavior, smile, laugh

Another Bush Lie: On Torture

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:11:00 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: From the article:

"Mr. Gonzales approved the legal memorandum on “combined effects” over the objections of James B. Comey, the deputy attorney general, who was leaving his job after bruising clashes with the White House. Disagreeing with what he viewed as the opinion’s overreaching legal reasoning, Mr. Comey told colleagues at the department that they would all be “ashamed” when the world eventually learned of it."

Clip Source: thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.

But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency.

The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures.

Tags: torture, war, war on terror, lies, deception

Cunning squirrels make bogus burials of 'nuts and seeds' to fool onlookers

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:59:30 GMT

clipped by: michellezm

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Their quick intelligence, razor-sharp memory and ruthless cunning have made them a foe of gardeners everywhere.

Now it turns out that grey squirrels are even more devious than anyone realised.

To protect their winter food stocks from potential thieves, they put on an elaborate show of burying non-existent nuts and seeds, a study has shown.

Scientists say the fake burials are designed to confuse any rival squirrels, birds or humans who might be watching.

The level of deception has astonished animal experts who say it shows a rare form of animal cunning and intelligence.

He found that a fifth of all so-called food burials are fake - and the proportion goes up if they think they are being watched.

"To our knowledge, this is the first study to show evidence of behavioural deception by a rodent, and the first to use an experimental approach to studying deceptive behaviour in in the wild," he says.

The squirrels go to elaborate lengths to keep up the pretence of hiding food.

If Fox 'News' was around to Report History

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:52:21 GMT

clipped by: Perwana786
clipper's remarks: Yeah it would have been HisStory! Just like it is today! :-0 !

"Fair and balanced" if one equates reading lies off a teleprompter as 'informative and equitable' ... Who loves lies? Who cherishes lies? Who finds lies comforting & pleasing? Who is the father of lies anyway? So who do liars serve?
And what about those who serve up or devour lies, thereby supporting, spreading deciets like a virus [meme]... in the traffic of lies, does it matter if one originates the deception? If they promulgate false witness, support harm of those who have been falsely accused, is that not complicity? And how can one serve God, objectively, if they love lies, spread lies, support liars... ??? I think those who play with themselves and others are unwitting dupes who decieve themselves BEFORE they decieve anyone else. Just my opinion. And they serve evil, just like every liar before them.

Personally I cannot stand lies. Or liars. MSM or otherwise.

Thou shalt NOT is clear... lies, false witn

Clip Source: www.funnypictures.net.au

If Fox News Had Existed Throughout History

what might we have seen on our screens in Fox News had existed throughout history?

pictures below may give us some clues

Tags: fox 'news', faux news, history according to fox, humor, msm can lie legally to public, court sanctioned deciet, pr spin

Are You a Liar? Ask Your Brain

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:12:13 GMT

clipped by: Mohir

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Are You a Liar? Ask Your Brain

Researchers use fMRIs to track blood flow in the brain to determine if someone is fibbing

The mere thought of being interrogated—by a parent, boss or significant other—is enough to make one's blood pressure rise and pulse and breathing rates race. But contrary to popular belief, these signs of anxiety are not reliable indicators of a person's honesty. Instead, researchers are looking into the brain to separate liars from truth tellers.

Polygraph, or lie detector, tests are the most well-known method of discerning fact from fiction, but researchers say they are not reliable because they measure anxiety based on a subject's pulse or breathing rate, which can easily be misread. "They're not detecting deception but rather the anxiety of being…[accused of deception]," Spence says. "It's known that psychopaths have a reduced level of anxiety," that would allow them to fool a polygraph. The fMRI, he says, images the actual processes involved in deception.

Tags: brain, mind

It's Not All About You

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:28:37 GMT

clipped by: Kore7
clipper's remarks: Most people are too busy worrying about their own personal problems to notice yours.

In a 2000 study, Gilovich and colleagues reported that students also badly overestimated how well their own gaffes and clever arguments were noticed by others in discussion groups. "The fact is that others do not notice us nearly as much as we think they do," Gilovich said. Contrary to every instinct, our nervousness, our sadness, even our lies are largely lost on most observers, he said.

Clip Source: homepage.psy.utexas.edu

Chances are, others aren't judging you as harshly as you think, if at all.

Oh, things sure took a bad turn. Mortifying, that's what it was. Such a big party -- friends, co-workers -- and you dumped that drink! How can you live with being such a klutz? Who there will ever forget it?

Take a deep breath. Stop obsessing. It probably wasn't as bad as you think. Not nearly.

A growing body of research shows that far fewer people notice our gaffes than we believe as we pace the floor in private, going over and over the faux pas. And those who do notice judge us less harshly than we imagine. In a series of groundbreaking studies over the last two years, psychologists have shown that the "spotlight effect," as they call it, is a universal experience that distorts our egocentric notion about the degree to which people in groups, like parties and work gatherings, pay attention to us.

Learning to recognize this self-deception can soothe the anxiety that surrounds social interactions.

Tags: you, spotlight effect, perception, social, psychology, advice, life, ego, deception, consciousness

Accelerating Deception and Memetic Evolution

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:59:02 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: One might call this “accelerating deception”, which seems like a logical counterpart to the exponential information growth.

Clip Source: memebox.com

Jamais Cascio at Open the Future is on to something big with a new concept he calls the Participatory Decepticon, the yang to the yin that is the Participatory Panopticon. The general idea is that we’re beginning to see instances of modified/corrupted video content that can greatly benefit the deceiver via a spike of monetizable attention.

“Such a deception wouldn’t stand for very long, but would almost certainly last long enough set off a wave of furious blog posts and mainstream media attention,” argues Cascio, citing political videos as an example.

Having been burned by fake news like the iphone face-to-face talk photos and having seen many a critical thinker hoodwinked by April Fool’s blog posts I certainly agree that this Decepticon is in its nascency. The corruption, camoflaging, variation seems to indicate a new type of evolutionary internet-based memetic/temetic/content mechanism at work

Tags: memetics, evolution, decepticon, fake news

How bad are things in Iraq?

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:58:47 GMT

clipped by: jklugman

Clip Source: www.brendan-nyhan.com

January 27, 2007

How bad are things in Iraq?

Very, very bad. Here's a disturbing fact mentioned in passing during a NPR report that aired on Monday about kidnappings in Iraq:

Some people now tattoo telephone numbers on their arms, so if they are killed their families can be contacted.

And here's Vice President Cheney on CNN two days later:

Bottom line is that we've had enormous successes [in Iraq] and we will continue to have enormous successes.

It must be fun to live outside the reality-based community.

Subscribe to this feed • Email this • Digg This!

05:40 PM | Permalink

Tags: bush administration, iraq, fubar, civil war, civil-war, incompetence, deception

Deception

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:20:18 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: From observation I have found this to be true.

Clip Source: www.refdesk.com

"When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them." - Paul Goodman

Tags: quotations

The Invisible Government

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:11:10 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks:

Rupert Murdoch has predicted that there will be just three global media giants, and his company will be one of them.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to check information via independent sources, because there doesn't seem to be that many left IMO. If all we have is official sources to get our information, they can pretty much tell us what ever they want...and they do.

The more they watched, the less they knew—Danny Schecter

Clip Source: www.informationclearinghouse.info

The Invisible Government

In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

By John Pilger

I would talk today about journalism, about war by journalism, propaganda, and silence

For what the public did not know was that in order to be professional, journalists had to ensure that news and opinion were dominated by official sources

check the sources of the main political stories—domestic and foreign—you'll find they're dominated by government and other established interests.

Consider how the power of this invisible government has grown.

Impartiality was a principle certainly: a principle to be suspended whenever the establishment was under threat. And that principle has been upheld ever since.

One of the oldest clichés of war is that truth is the first casualty. No it's not. Journalism is the first casualty.

Tags: media, truth, propaganda, sources, lies, deception, pilger, journalism, murdoch, bilderberg, nwo

Clipmarks | jklugman's 'deception' clips

Babies not as innocent as they pretend

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking - 6 Rules

A Field Guide to Critical Thinking

Falsifiability

Logic

Comprehensiveness

Honesty

Replicability

Sufficiency

How to Detect Lies

Signs of Deception:

Body Language of Lies:

Emotional Gestures & Contradiction

Interactions and Reactions

Verbal Context and Content

"Invisible" people

Spot the 'invisible' men and women in artist's amazing photographs

Bush: "Far too many people know far too much." Lies

Why Are We So Bad at Spotting Lies?

Another Bush Lie: On Torture

Cunning squirrels make bogus burials of 'nuts and seeds' to fool onlookers

If Fox 'News' was around to Report History

If Fox News Had Existed Throughout History

Are You a Liar? Ask Your Brain

Are You a Liar? Ask Your Brain

Researchers use fMRIs to track blood flow in the brain to determine if someone is fibbing

It's Not All About You

Accelerating Deception and Memetic Evolution

How bad are things in Iraq?

Brendan Nyhan

January 27, 2007

How bad are things in Iraq?

Deception

The Invisible Government