The Importance of Language in Deception Detection

The typical accuracy is about 54%. You'll see that number all scattered throughout the deception literature, but way more accurate for truths than lies. People seem to be overestimating how much deception there is out there. But then when it comes down to judging an individual case, they tend to go the opposite way. They just, I think the underlying idea is that we're just really bad in tutors and detectors of deception. We cannot intuit how often people lie. If someone is lying, we need ground truth. In order to figure out what lies are, we need to know what the truth is.