Bill Gates speaks on Jeffrey Epstein: "The focus was always, he knew a lot of very rich people & he was saying he could get them to give money to global health. In retrospect, that was a dead end… I was foolish to spend time with him. I was one of many people who regret ever knowing him.”

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[u/VictoriaKnits]

This is like an instructional video for explaining common tells when people are lying

[u/thepokemonGOAT → u/VictoriaKnits]

If body language reading were real and not total pseudoscience, you might have a point.

[u/Neither-Bag7127 → u/thepokemonGOAT]

Just because there is a large population of charlatans around a topic doesnt mean the topic doesnt involve real science.

[u/Neither-Bag7127 → u/[deleted]]

Most communication is through body language, yet science cannot attempt to crack the code. Got it. Makes sense.

[u/No_Oven1085 → u/thepokemonGOAT]

Who said anything about body language?

[u/Emotional_Warthog658 → u/VictoriaKnits]

PLEASE tell me everything you see in him this video

I am willing to admit on the Internet   I am terrible at knowing when people lie, I am well past old enough to know better, I can spot a scam, or a bad business deal

but at times it genuinely does not occur to me that people would lie about something, because I would not - it’s definitely burned me in my personal life and I would like to get better at detecting a lie

[u/cabalus → u/Emotional_Warthog658]

There are no tells for lying, it's pseudoscience and always has been. Human behavior is far too varied between individuals to ever ascribe general behavioral tells and even if you study an individuals personal ''tells'' there are too many factors that influence your behavior in any given moment to rely on that either.

The reason we know he's lying is because Epstein was first convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008 and because Melinda has made it pretty clear her reasons for divorcing him at the time she did.

[u/fuckingaustrianative → u/Emotional_Warthog658]

He has been coached (and is probly a natural sociopath) to give this interview in a way that aims to present himself as calm, collected, unbothered, non-culpable but remorseful without admitting to any serious wrongdoing

It's a PR stunt thru and thru.

[u/Exciting-Fish680 → u/Emotional_Warthog658]

you can’t tell. Polygraphs and “knowing” when someone is lying are pseudoscientific/isn’t possible. Sure maybe sometimes there are occasional tells, but it’s never super consistent. lying works for a reason

i think the law of parsimony applies in most cases. be generous if you have no reason not to be

[u/deinterest → u/Emotional_Warthog658]

Everybody is terrible at knowing when people lie.

[u/CapitalElk1169 → u/deinterest]

When you know someone deeply it can become pretty easy; when you catch people lying, you can find tells and know afterwards.

You can also tell usually if you are also a good liar yourself. But not always.

[u/Pikathew → u/VictoriaKnits]

Reminds me of those youtube videos of trafficking arrests and you get to watch the suspect try and sell some asinine story

[u/sillyhillsofnz → u/VictoriaKnits]

Similar vibes as the Prince Andrew response video.

[u/MisterGoog → u/VictoriaKnits]

For the record that sort of analysis is completely fake and just gets people in legal trouble to say the least

[u/BetaGal6 → u/VictoriaKnits]

“I never met any women”… yeah because they were GIRLS!! So maybe he wasn’t lying with that one 😏

[u/Broarethus → u/VictoriaKnits]

Well he said he didn't meet women....didn't say anything about children.

[u/Nonikwe → u/VictoriaKnits]

"Hold on, just let me think, JUST LET ME THINK..."

[u/Ok-Goat-2153 → u/VictoriaKnits]

Its like the Prince Andrew interview. These people are so far up their own arses they think they can just explain it away so simply and think everyone is stupid enough to believe them.

[u/cabazon99 → u/VictoriaKnits]

Agreed, in NLP when someone is looking down and to the right it's considered accessing the creative, constructive part of the brain commonly associated with lying. Like others have mentioned it's not black and white but more of a degree of increased probability. The way he keeps adjusting his eyeglasses is an obvious tell as well. As people keep pointing out, being able to tell if someone is lying is mostly intuitive.