Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:52:05 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> Now, if everyone that was telling you that you are good at detecting
>>>> deceit where one of those who claimed to trust priests, farmers and
>>>> prostitutes, before scientists, what would your reaction be to their
>>>> certainty of how good you are?
>>> Admittedly not that good.  That's why I don't look to those kinds of
>>> people (or people actually in those professions) to help me adjust my
>>> personal self-perception bias.
>>>
>>> Jim
>> Well, my point here was that "everyone" has some general biases. Its not
>> hard to detect "some" kinds of deceit, especially if they manage to
>> press many of the wrong buttons. After all, its likely that the
>> individual you are talking about where used to dealing with precisely
>> the people that thought they where going to, i.e. lawyers. They knew
>> their mind set, they knew what to say that would sound plausible to
>> "those" people, etc. You on the other hand... they where not able to
>> predict, so couldn't, as effectively, mess with. So, yes, in that
>> situation "anyone" with your background might have had "better"
>> instincts than the people who they where "intending" to target.
> 
> Perhaps, but the specific case in hand the person wasn't intending to be 
> talking to the lawyer at all.  He was trying to force me to do something/
> allow him to do something.  He said the magic words that meant I had to 
> take it to legal, though - and he was *very* surprised when he got a call 
> from a lawyer.  He was trying to deceive me, but didn't know me very 
> well.  His thinking was "Jim should value me and my contribution, so I 
> should be able to force him to bend to my will".  When I didn't, he 
> started trying to use deceit, even dragging others into his deception 
> (which could have gotten really ugly).
> 
And, I am sure it worked before, on people more gullible. Most people, 
whether they have suspicions or not, will cave under such tactics, 
either due to being unaware how far they could take it, or because they 
don't want to put in the effort to fight back.

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