Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "The Pact | Full Episode" video.
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Sure, but we're wrong all the time, all of us. Sometimes it's really obvious and we are correct, but far more often we're guessing, as we don't know people's baseline personalities. Some people are nervous truth tellers, while others can calmly sell freezers on the North Pole.
No one knew this 30 years ago. Modern science has proven demonstrably how bad we all are at this, even if many individuals think they are brilliant at such matters. Fact is, mindreading is a huge reason why we used to convict innocents - and sometimes execute them - with all too much frequency. Along came DNA, and hundreds have been exonerated off of death row, people placed there because police and juries could "just tell". (Too late for thousands of others.) Follow-up studies have proven the point beyond any doubt, as Malcolm Gladwell and others have written about.
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@PippiOnePointOh
Sure, but we're wrong all the time, all of us. Sometimes it's really obvious and we are correct, but far more often we're guessing, as we don't know people's baseline personalities. Some people are nervous truth tellers, while others can calmly sell freezers to the eskimoes.
No one knew this 30 years ago. Modern science has proven demonstrably how bad we all are at this, even if many individuals think they are brilliant at such matters. Fact is, mindreading is a huge reason why we used to convict innocents - and sometimes execute them - with all too much frequency. Along came DNA, and hundreds have been exonerated off of death row, people placed there because police and juries could "just tell". (Too late for thousands of others.) Follow-up studies have proven the point beyond any doubt, as Malcolm Gladwell and others have written about.
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@PippiOnePointOh
Sure, but we're wrong all the time, all of us. Sometimes it's really obvious and we are correct, but far more often we're guessing, as we don't know people's baseline personalities. Some people are nervous truth tellers, while others can calmly sell freezers to the eskimoes.
No one knew this 30 years ago. Modern science has proven demonstrably how bad we all are at this, even if many individuals think they are brilliant at such matters. Fact is, mindreading is a huge reason why we used to convict innocents - and sometimes execute them - with all too much frequency. Along came DNA, and hundreds have been exonerated off of death row, people placed there because police and juries could "just tell". (Too late for thousands of others.) Follow-up studies have proven the point beyond any doubt, as Malcolm Gladwell and others have written about.
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@PippiOnePointOh
Sure, but we're wrong all the time, all of us. Sometimes it's really obvious and we are correct, but far more often we're guessing, as we don't know people's baseline personalities. Some people are nervous truth tellers, while others can calmly sell freezers to the inuits.
No one knew this 30 years ago. Modern science has proven demonstrably how bad we all are at this, even if many individuals think they are brilliant at such matters. Fact is, mindreading is a huge reason why we used to convict innocents - and sometimes execute them - with all too much frequency. Along came DNA, and hundreds have been exonerated off of death row, people placed there because police and juries could "just tell". (Too late for thousands of others.) Follow-up studies have proven the point beyond any doubt, as Malcolm Gladwell and others have written about.
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@PippiOnePointOh
Sure, but we're wrong all the time, all of us. Sometimes it's really obvious and we are correct, but far more often we're guessing, as we don't know people's baseline personalities. Some people are nervous truth tellers, while others can calmly sell freezers on the North Pole.
No one knew this 30 years ago. Modern science has proven demonstrably how bad we all are at this, even if many individuals think they are brilliant at such matters. Fact is, mindreading is a huge reason why we used to convict innocents - and sometimes execute them - with all too much frequency. Along came DNA, and hundreds have been exonerated off of death row, people placed there because police and juries could "just tell". (Too late for thousands of others.) Follow-up studies have proven the point beyond any doubt, as Malcolm Gladwell and others have written about.
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