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People who are lying take longer to write a message according to a newly-published study. But the difference may not be enough to be a useful guide in text ‘conversations.’
Researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah asked more than 100 students from two unnamed universities to take part in a test where a computer asked them 30 questions and they typed a reply. The students were told to lie in 50 percent of their answers.
The results, published in the journal ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, showed that on average the students took 10 percent longer to write a false response. The cause of the delay appears to be explained by the fact that the students were more likely to edit a false response before submitting it — despite the fact that the false responses tended to be shorter.
It’s an interesting pattern in the light of previous research into truth and lies. Generally, people who are lying tend to be more careful about their responses and go into more detail, most likely to make their response sound more accurate and thus believable. That’s related to the problem of eyewitness accounts, where respondents often subconsciously ‘create’ additional detail because their brain wants to make a complete, coherent story that makes sense, so they fill in any gaps.
Although the testing here involved users on computers, the researchers believe the results may also apply to other forms of communication such as instant messaging on social networks and people rapidly exchanging text messages on phones. (Contrary to some media reports, the theory has not been tested or proven for people texting on phones.)
One big limitation to using the results is that given the time it takes to write a message and then have it delivered, a 10 percent difference may not be perceptible to recipients. The researchers speculated about the possibility that computerized tools could act as a form of lie detector for online chats.
The researchers also analyzed the actual words people used when making the true and false responses but couldn’t spot any clear links.
The BYU research follows a previous study by the University of British Columbia that involved a role-playing game where players acted as stockbrokers and investors. It found that the ‘stockbroker’ was more likely to lie when communicating via text message than in face-to-face conversations or phone calls; surprisingly video calls were more likely to see the stockbroker telling the truth than face-to-face conversations.
Andrew and Stuart went around Ohio tipping $200 to random, unsuspecting servers who only make $2.13 an hour.
The results are heartwarming.
[via BuzzFeed]
Machete Killsย comes out October 11.
The fact this trailer is NSFW goes without saying, doesn’t it?
[via IGN]
The government has formally asked the Federal Communications Commission to force cellphone carriers to make it physically possible to unlock phones. It follows an appeal for Congress to make the practice legally OK.
Back in January, a change in the law meant that phone unlocking technically became a breach of the law. That’s because the Librarian of Congress has the power to decide which devices or systems are exempted from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which broadly outlaws the practice of bypassing any technology used to protect copyright.
In the case of phones, some carriers had put forward the convoluted argument that the software used to lock a phone is itself copyrighted and thus covered by the DCMA. Until this year the law had nothing to say on the matter, but consumer groups asked the Librarian of Congress to add phone unlocking to the exempt list. Although that happened, the exemption only applied to phones sold up to and including January 26 this year. That at the very least implied that phones sold since then are indeed subject to the DCMA when it comes to unlocking.
The news prompted a petition to the White House that triggered a mandatory response on behalf of the President. In that response, the administration called on Congress to introduce a law specifically permitting phone unlocking. Although there has been talk and some proposed bills, there’s been no specific legislation yet.
While that process goes on, another government agency has delivered its own petition to the FCC calling for a change in rules that attacks the issue from a different perspective. The call comes from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the US Commerce Department, which is described as a follow-up to the White House response.
In the petition, the NTIA asks the FCC to set down explicit rules that say carriers must unlock phones upon request. As this would simply involve the carrier removing their own lock, there’d be no question of either the phone user or a third party breaching any laws.
According to the NTIA, such a move would increase the ability of customers to shop around for cellphone service and thus increase competition in the industry. Of course, such changes wouldn’t mean customers escaped any minimum term or early redemption penalties set down in phone contracts.
BRILLIANT!!!
Is string theory right?
Is it just fantasy?
Caught in the landscape,
Out of touch with reality
[acapellascience | Via Laughing Squid]
Brad Pitt, the most awesome stay-at-home, zombie-slaying, dad ever.
