Lie Detection Test

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Is this really easy? I usually do from bad to ok on body language tests. But I got 6/6 right on this one.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hidd ... lent-tests (you may have to click "take a test" and then scroll up to find it)

I wonder if there's a clinical term for a big split between the ability to closely identify negative body language like lying and a worse ability to identify positive body language, like flirting.

I only got 1 of 6 right, but I already knew that I can't tell lies from truth.

2/6

Yep. I can't tell the difference and each time was a guess.

I did the language one, and it decided that I didn't make the "honor roll" because I can't do timed tests.

It didn't know that I am learning my 3rd foreign language and can read 7 different languages, including a few that I have never studied before.

Don't put a lot of stock in tests such as these. You know yourself.

I got 4/6. Anyone notice the pattern to the answers(don't want to spoil it)?

I got 5/6, even while dragging the "timer" ahead and skipping some of the video.

Then again, the only thing one is required to think about in the test is the task at hand, while, in real conversation, one's mind is preoccupied by a million other distractions. Also, having only two possible answers--"yes" or "no"--increases the possibility that guessing--which I'll admit I did a bit of during the test--will be successful.

4/6.

First guy was a convincing liar, he seemed sincere to me but wasn't according to the answer key. The other two guys were obviously lying. The first woman seemed pretty sincere but I couldn't tell either way with the other two women.

My result: 4/6.

Interestingly, when I was tested clinically, I had very specific, detailed knowledge of negative body language but a very shaky grasp of positive body language.

I can always just "feel" when someone is lying, and I can't say I've ever been wrong. I can also feel when no one wants me around, or when someone doesn't want to talk to me, so no one has ever asked me to leave a situation or place. I've never been rejected by the opposite gender.

I can't similarly feel if someone is flirting, interested, or wants to be friends. I know negative very well, but I can't distinguish between positive body language and neutral or between positives to save my life. If someone has lots of positive body language but only one negative micro expression, perhaps indicating a lie or rejection of something, that's all I'll notice.

As they are strangers I have no way of knowing what the baseline for normal behavior is for them, and what could be due to anxiousness/quirks/RLS/stims/drugs/normalness/lying ? Got 3/6.
The "Behavioural Insights" part after the test was a little terrifying - listed both moving ones feet (bad news for stimmy or fidgety folks) AND keeping still (bad news for stimmy or fidgety folks trying to suppress that) as a sign of lying, but then one of the women telling the truth was very rigid (but was described as "relaxed") so what is considered honest NT body movement? Both a rhetorical question and a sincere one. Also, things like qualifiers and not enough I statements or a lot of them and "convincing" are all things that are normal under different circumstances - if someone is unsure or just are that way or humble or confident or been socialized as a woman or using nerd voice - it's not just about earnest or lying. Horrible that what they think of as "is worried" equates "is lying"? Surely that's situation dependant.

heck yeah baby!! ! 5/6 i knew iwas good at catching filthy liars. Last one was tough because of her thick accent but i got it right. The one i got wrong was number 4. i thought she was lying but she was telling the truth.

I got 4 out of 6. I winged it i was squinting trying to see if they were shaking their heads while speaking affirmative or doing contradictory movements.
I'm not sure which 2 i missed...