The Times is aggressive this year in assessing the truthfulness of the candidates' statements and ads, often putting it in an adversarial position with them.
Howard Kahane, a philosopher who sought to rid logic of its strict mathematical connotations, making it instead a tool for assessing the truthfulness of anything, including political statements, advertisements and school textbooks, died on May 2 in Mill Valley, Calif.
Assessing the truthfulness of such inflammatory statements — made by people who deserted the church or were expelled — was a challenge for the newspaper, which has maintained a special focus on Scientology.
Be careful about assessing the truthfulness of someone's statement based on eye movements alone.
After all, a doctor is a kind of forensic detective, looking for a diagnosis: there is a clever scene where Jenny assesses truthfulness by asking key questions while taking the pulse.
Still more ironically, the truth-squad techniques of recent journalism, in which TV reporters assess the truthfulness of negative ads, is probably backfiring.
The judge in the case, Paul Paruk, told Ms. Muhammad he needed to see her face to assess her truthfulness.
During the interview process, which took two-and-a-half hours in its entirety, Mr Mullins also asks Mitchell a series of "comparison" questions to help him assess the truthfulness of his responses to the three key questions.
To assess the truthfulness of these values, we checked whether they were recorded simultaneously by Swarm A and C, and we found that these values were seen by both satellites.
The fact that one of the researchers (AMH) has participated throughout the planning process in all meetings, and has had access to most documents - electronic as well as paper-based - has made it possible to assess the truthfulness of, e.g. time pressure and the amount of documents related to the process.
