February 20, 2005
Facial Analysis
Via both Will Carroll and The Birdwatch, Mike Davidson tries to look at Jose Canseco's face to see if he's lying during his 60 Minutes interview. This technique is discussed extensively in Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.
I first saw this technique discussed in The Human Face, the John Cleese documentary. They have a discussion of micro expressions, and the one for lying appears to be a brief vertical line forming between the two eyebrows (I'm doing this from memory right now; I'll go home and watch the DVD later). It then shows this forming on Clinton when he made his infamous quote about not having sex with that woman.
I may try to track down the experts profiled in Blink and see what they think of the Canseco interview.
Update: It's not a vertical line, it is a furrowed brow that lasts for about 1/5 of a second. Having rewatched that portion of the DVD, The Human Face uses the same expert Gladwell used, Paul Ekman.
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Everytime that bastard liar Bush lied about WMD he would always blink blink and you knew he was lying his ass off....what an asshole!
and what does that have ANYTHING to do with baseball???
"and what does that have ANYTHING to do with baseball???"
WHat do Clinton and that woman have to do with baseball?
Not to go off on a political tangent here, esp. since I don't have links handy or remember how it all came out, but I do recall there was some debate during the primaries last year about the fact that Wesley Clark almost never blinks and the fact that a lot of people found that unsettling to watch.
I'm not sure you can make much of any of this, though. I suspect people manifest things in different ways.
