Then, inside a scanner, they were asked to lie about which object they had taken but to answer truthfully to neutral questions, such as "Do you like chocolate?" The researchers distinguished truthful from deceptive responses in ninety per cent of the cases.
Participants were less accurate at distinguishing truthful from false opinions when the sender's opinion was inconsistent with their own.
In the current research, not only did subjects find it difficult to accurately locate the specific aspects of the image that had been altered, they also found it difficult to distinguish original, truthful photos from manipulated, untruthful ones.
They must be taught, among other things, how their representatives are elected and how to distinguish between truthful and meretricious campaign rhetoric.
No brain-imaging machine can reliably distinguish a doctored story from the truthful one, for instance; ditto for polygraphs, which track changes in physiology as an indirect measure of lying.
When viewed in this context, Defendant's advertisements are not false, but rather are a truthful promotion of its free trial that could potentially distinguish its services from other companies by allowing customers to incorporate without paying any processing and filing fees".
In what follows, we sometimes use the terminology production costs and information costs to distinguish between costs incurred through production and costs paid to ensure truthful revelation by the buyer.6 The terms "marginal production" and "marginal information" costs will then have the obvious interpretation.
"Where he had relevant knowledge, he was able to give full and detailed answers; he took care to distinguish between his own knowledge, reconstructed assumptions and speculation … In conclusion I found Mr Abramovich to be a truthful, and on the whole reliable, witness".
"Where he had relevant knowledge, he was able to give full and detailed answers; he took care to distinguish between his own knowledge, reconstructed assumptions and speculation … In conclusion I found Mr Abramovich to be a truthful, and on the whole reliable, witness".
