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		sarchertech on Oct 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to detect lies with a storytelling technique Hmm... My guess is that in a few years, we'll see the word frequency analysis being used by police as an investigative technique. However just like with drug dogs, they'll ignore the high false positives and low prior probabilities.

redler on Oct 28, 2015 [–]

Hmm... My guess is that in a few years, we'll see the word frequency analysis being used by police as an investigative technique.

It's an interesting thought. Imagine the linguistic equivalent of using Benford's Law to detect accounting fraud.

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