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I couldnt agree with you more!!!

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I am told that, despite a common belief by police that they are capable of reading suspects, when tested they fare no better than civilians. Same thing holds for other law enforcement and investigation groups, even elite ones.

To systematically do better than chance, people need special and intensive training; see this for examples.

Perhaps a contributing factor is that police and similar investigators are often confronted by people trying to deceive them, and even without a true capacity to detect lies and evasions, if they guess they're being lied to they're probably right.

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