Tell Science
Can you spot the liar?
The New York Times asked that question — recognizing right out the gate this is supposed to be a poker skill — and presented an interactive exercise featuring video clips of people answering seemingly innocuous questions, to see, essentially, if you can spot a simple bluff.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/21/science/can-you-spot-the-liar.html
(Apparently the body-language-reading techniques being taught at the TSA aren’t quite preparing their security agents for the WSOP.)
Booyah, I got 9/10 … so don’t even think about it. Phil Hellmuth can read souls, pshaw!
The one I missed was where the girl talks about boys playing a game in the library where they tried to scream the word “penis” as loud as they could. And I suppose my answer was biased as I had actually won that game several times in 9th grade.
