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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by simonh on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @01:02PM (#10465729)
If you catch X people trying to blow up a plane and no planes get blown up, that's fairly good evidence that your method of catching people trying to blow up planes has been 100% successful. So far.
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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by pdeuchler on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @02:49PM (#10466449)
This is one hell of a post hoc ergo propter hoc, I'll give you that at least
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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by CamperBob2 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:43PM (#10467930)
What's wrong with it? He's not making the usual "tiger-proof rock" argument used to refer to the TSA, after all. The TSA doesn't, as a rule, catch people who were actually planning to cause trouble. They either catch people who didn't know/care how much toothpaste they were allowed to smuggle onboard, or they catch idiots who forgot they were carrying a .50 caliber Desert Eagle in their shaving kit. This is a different argument altogether.
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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by chias on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @02:27PM (#10466318)
That is an extraordinarily dangerous notion.
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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:05PM (#10467405)
Or maybe the people trying to blow up planes are just as bad at blowing up planes as you are at catching them.
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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by fnordfnordfnord on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:36PM (#10466766)
Want to buy an elephant whistle?
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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by cuckcuckspruce on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @04:34PM (#10467204)
The difference is that there are many groups who have publicly declared their intent to blow up Israeli airliners, so it's not as if you're defending against a non-existent threat.
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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by hugh4 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:04PM (#10467760)
No, but if my security guards keep turning away actual elephants at the border and I find no actual elephants nearby then I can conclude that my anti-elephant security works.
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Re:How to detect lies with a storytelling technique by backtoyoujim on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:12PM (#10467451)
Do you know that you have a banana in your ear?
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