"A "Truth Wizard" is a person identified in the Wizards Project, who can identify deception with exceptional accuracy of at least 80% or higher, whereas the average person is only as good as a coin toss. No Truth Wizard, however, is 100% accurate. The term "wizard" refers to "a person of amazing skill or accomplishment"[1].
What is the Wizards Project?
"The Wizards Project (formerly called the Diogenes Project) was a research project conducted by Paul Ekman and Maureen O'Sullivan that studied the ability of people to detect lies told by others. The project was originally named after the Greek philosopher who would look into people's faces using a lamp, claiming to be looking for an honest man."
Who is Paul Ekman?
Paul Ekman is a psychologist who has been a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions.
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Note that the Truth Wizard I asked lives in - and is from - the US, speaks English and does not understand the Filipino language.
She therefore has to rely only on facial expressions shown by Ramona Bautista on the vid below.
I asked what she could discern from Ramona Bautista's facial expressions. I explained that in the video below, Ramona is describing what she saw when her brother was murdered.
With EyesForLies permission, she observes - absent of any translation - that Ramona Bautista is "emotionally dull" -- not a natural thing to be after witnessing the murder of a sibling. She said she had to google Ramona Bautsita's name to know if Ramona was indeed talking about a murder and found it interesting that Ramona is being tagged as a suspect.
EyesforLies is a Truth Wizard. According to her blog, she "has a 97.3% accuracy rate (to date) after identifying truth and deception in 37/38 people before the truth was known by watching media clips. Eyes for Lies is not psychic."
She relies on subtle facial expressions, microexpressions, verbal cues and a host of other minute details the average person mostly cannot see, usually dismiss or conveniently explain away.
"How does she spot lies?
Eyes for Lies looks for behavioral evidence. When people are under high stress situations and they are deceptive, subconscious clues leak out that tell the real story. Eyes for Lies coined this "behavioral evidence".
"They [wizards] seem to have templates of people that they use to make sense of the behavioral deviations they observe." says [Dr. Maureen] O'Sullivan. So it is not a set of disembodied cues, but embedded behaviors that are consistent with each other as well as with the kind of person exhibiting them."
Paul Ekman says at 48:04-48:23 on Truth Wizards:
"...we don't know why they're so good...they're uncanny...They don't miss anything. Every aspect of your speech, mannerism, what you're doing with your hands. They're continuing to generate hypotheses as they go along. "
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