This article describes a study conducted at BYU that showed how people who are lying via text messages respond differently. Read the article by clicking on the link above (or follow the url). Then, summarize the article or comment on the question below.
Do you think that the results of this study are accurate? What complications could make these results invalid?
http://healthland.time.com/2013/09/05/how-to-catch-a-texting-liar/
Researcher on BYU made a survey to 100 students. This research was about lying by the social media. They said that is easier and are more likely to lie while texting than in a conversations in front of other person or video conferences. They say that while people are talking with some person and they lie, there are some proves that shows if the person is lying, like the movement of the eyes or facial expressions. While talking by social media can be a difficult to realize if the person is lying, but there are some proves to like the time that the person spends to answer or the times that this person edits what he or she is writing.
ReplyDeleteThis is Kyusuk. This article says that long time delayed response during the texting conversation might be mendacity not something happens. That is, people usually think if someone who texts with them delays responding the message, he or she might be lying. During delaying, he or she might think about excuses.
ReplyDeleteSo, this result of survey from BYU might be accurate because most people would agree with this result. There are a lot of situations that they undergo during the texting conversations and actually they commonly happen. I also agree with most of results, however, I'm not sure about certainty. People who delay response maybe have something difficult positions such as having conferences, exercising, or driving. So, this result could be very interesting and commonly accepted to peole, but we shouldn't think it would be exact result. hahaha
When someone is lying to you, there are various ways to catch the liar. For example, watching his body signals. However, when someone lies in a text message, it is harder to see whether they are telling the truth or not. Furthermore, you can create a different personality via text message than the actual that you have . I think that the results of this study are accurate, because they give examples of the surveyed people, and after analyzing their behavior they came to the conclusion that they take more time to write a text in they are lying to you. However, there are other situations where this result can be inaccurate. For example, if the person is busy, or doesn't want to talk anymore, would make the text take longer to be sent.
ReplyDeleteIn this study from BYU, they asked to 100 students 30 questions to find out how people lie by texting. The experience showed that when it was a "hard question" it took about 10% of the time to answer, what means it was a lie. This article also points that the probably of occurrence of lies are much higher to happen through texts tahn face-to-face conversations because face-to-face the body language say much more than words, what can be hide through texts.
ReplyDeleteI though it was interesting even though I do not agree 100%. I think there are many factors that can interrupt a text conversation, however it is true that when it is a delicate topic, textes take longer to get back, and it can mean a lie.
I agree with that the texting liers are difficult to catch because we can't see any of their body language. However, I don' think the result is accurate. 1,they only did research in BYU and only for 100 students,that's narrow. 2,they didn't gave us their operational approach and figures by statistical chart.sometimes people do need to think for a little longer time befoer texting while sometimes they are trying to lie, how did they mesure the time? The info. in texes can't be same (if they're all asked to type the same message, they can't say they are lying) everybody has they different typing speed, did they also considered it? so I think the result is not really valid.
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