Can you spot the liar?

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6/10

There was only one person I thought was lying. The rest I thought were telling the truth.

I detect lies through logical inconsistencies in real life. My poor social skills can be an advantage in that pursuit because I don't receive the signals that liars are trying to send. If there's a logical inconsistency, I can point it out. Of course, sometimes those are due to mixed-up memories or misunderstanding, so they are not an absolute indicator of lying, but somehow it seems that with this technique I can often spot liars that neurotypicals would believe. Maybe it's because neurotypicals are spending some of their cognitive resources on interpreting the social signals, while I don't bother with that sort of thing; so they don't have enough attention left over to figure out the discrepancy until they think about it later on.

I don't know whether people lie to me in real life (either no one ever lies to me or I never notice), but I detect sarcasm using inconsistencies. Like if someone says that they are "so excited about moving into a cubicle"- well, no one is really excited to go from an office to a cubicle. Once I've detected an inconsistency, I look for other signs of sarcasm like an exaggerated voice, a big smile, or laughing. I can detect sarcasm most of the time using that, although "sneaky sarcasm" where I don't know whether what they're saying is true, or when they have a deadpan facial expression, definitely can get by me.

When I was a kid I hated when people were sarcastic or "kidding" because I considered it lying, but now that I can generally pick up on it, it doesn't bother me as much, and I understand that it is not lying.

6/10
I thought they were all telling the truth.

I got 6/10. I was practically guessing. This isn't new to me- I'm utterly hopeless at body language. I got in the 3rd percentile in the "what emotion are the eyes" quiz.

I don't really seem to have many other aspie traits, and I'm legally blind in one eye and visually sort of impaired in the other (both eyes were blind until one was able to be surgically corrected when I was 3.5). I am curious if this history has something to do with it.

7/10. Thats actally better than I expected.
I was just clueless and guessing most of the time.

8 out of 10. of the ones i got right, i knew 2 were lying just from the picture displayed before playing the video. not sure how, but that was my gut feeling. One i wasn't sure and had to guessed right, one i wasn't sure and guessed wrong, the other i was flat out wrong.

i found the first six easier than the last 4.

and people say i can't read minds

5/10... It's hard to tell without more context... Some of the pauses looked like they were giving the questions thought, so I thought they were being truthful when they turned out to be lying.

5/10. Two liers were easy. When the one guy said "honest" I knew he was not the other guy was blantenly rolling his eyes.

7/10 for me

5/10. There were a few I was guessing, there were a few others I was sure about. I got just as many right/wrong when I was sure as when I was guessing.

Like a few others have said, IRL, I have to learn individual people's "tells," then I can read them pretty well. OTOH, I don't suffer liars well, so once they've revealed themselves to me as a liar, I try to have little or nothing further to do with them.

out of ten, they all looked pretty truthful to me though, but sometimes i could tell it looked truthful.