Just-so story time: I think people are generally bad at thinking 'wait, this might just be made up' or at least expending effort in checking that or something? or maybe the failures at it are more salient or something.
So people who for unrelated reasons pick up the skill 'notice misleading use of facts' are going to be better at that than at the thing most people by default are bad at
I think some common subsets of neurodivergent people might be worse than neurotypicals at picking up lies via body language or expressions, but I don't think that's what's most relevant here. Most instances of 'actually, that's just made up' are not delivered in person by the person who actually made them up.
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Date: 2019-06-15 02:44 pm (UTC)Just-so story time: I think people are generally bad at thinking 'wait, this might just be made up' or at least expending effort in checking that or something? or maybe the failures at it are more salient or something.
So people who for unrelated reasons pick up the skill 'notice misleading use of facts' are going to be better at that than at the thing most people by default are bad at
I think some common subsets of neurodivergent people might be worse than neurotypicals at picking up lies via body language or expressions, but I don't think that's what's most relevant here. Most instances of 'actually, that's just made up' are not delivered in person by the person who actually made them up.