Are You Detecting Your Children's Lies?

Most people in the field agree that we're bad at detecting if we're being lied to a meta analysis included 25,000 test subjects and concluded that people get guessed correctly 54% of the time. When tested only hearing the person's voice, the success rate went up to 63%. The imagery actually distracts the viewer from noticing vocal cues. Even people who deal with having to determine lies or the truth professionally could not score better than randomly selecting a person off the street.