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So if you're explicitly requested to provide as many details as possible, you'll still refuse to do so?

garciasn 2y ago
The number of details I’m able and/or willing to convey is going to be far fewer than someone who obsesses over details for everything they do. Ds are a small percentage of the general population. When compared to baseline, they’re going to underperform to that baseline and potentially be identified as liars.
kstrauser 2y ago
That depends. To my wife or kids? My boss? My friends? I’ll go into as much detail as it takes to make them happy. To a police agency? Not a word unless my lawyer’s approved it first. But it’s that last group that’s most likely to be using formal lie detector systems. I don’t do criminal things. It’s just general life advice never to answer police questions without a lawyer, and to otherwise STFU until they’re on scene. Before that I’m not confirming the color of the grass in my yard.
- qup 2y ago
  It's also general life advice to never take a polygraph, so maybe just don't do this thing either.
  - kstrauser 2y ago
    That too.
jpc0 2y ago
It's at that point I probably get a lawyer in the room. There's a reason human testimony is second to actual evidence. I was involved in a motor vehicle accident that went to court, the testimony I have maybe half an hour afterwards in a police report as well as to my lawyer was that the other vehicle was white. I got the brand and model of the other vehicle correct however the other vehicle was in fact black. I wouldn't believe it till my lawyer actually showed me a picture of the other vehicle. I didn't attempt to lie, I simply misremembered the details and if I misremembered that detail what else would I have misremembered. Pushing me for details after that experience makes me explicitly believe you are trying to catch me out and I would then shut up and request a lawyer because I don't see any good coming from that.

The number of details I’m able and/or willing to convey is going to be far fewer than someone who obsesses over details for everything they do. Ds are a small percentage of the general population. When compared to baseline, they’re going to underperform to that baseline and potentially be identified as liars.

kstrauser 2y ago

That depends. To my wife or kids? My boss? My friends? I’ll go into as much detail as it takes to make them happy. To a police agency? Not a word unless my lawyer’s approved it first. But it’s that last group that’s most likely to be using formal lie detector systems. I don’t do criminal things. It’s just general life advice never to answer police questions without a lawyer, and to otherwise STFU until they’re on scene. Before that I’m not confirming the color of the grass in my yard.

qup 2y ago
It's also general life advice to never take a polygraph, so maybe just don't do this thing either.
- kstrauser 2y ago
  That too.

jpc0 2y ago

It's at that point I probably get a lawyer in the room. There's a reason human testimony is second to actual evidence. I was involved in a motor vehicle accident that went to court, the testimony I have maybe half an hour afterwards in a police report as well as to my lawyer was that the other vehicle was white. I got the brand and model of the other vehicle correct however the other vehicle was in fact black. I wouldn't believe it till my lawyer actually showed me a picture of the other vehicle. I didn't attempt to lie, I simply misremembered the details and if I misremembered that detail what else would I have misremembered. Pushing me for details after that experience makes me explicitly believe you are trying to catch me out and I would then shut up and request a lawyer because I don't see any good coming from that.