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Old 09-07-2014, 09:35 AM   #9
vicky_molokh
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Default Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Body Language

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Originally Posted by Flyndaran View Post
That all just makes detect lies even more cinematic than it was to begin with. At least body language is a hair less of a super power.
Interpreting written information for veracity would fall right in the center of Intelligence Analysis.
Intelligence Analysis covers lots of other aspects of infoverification. Detect Lies seems to be only about whether the person writing the text seemed to be telling the truth. Which is not the same as whether the facts stated in the text are true - after all, a person can unknowingly transmit a falsehood!

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Looking at the default write up of Detect Lies also has it resisted by Acting.
Yes, it is. I'm not sure: did I contradict this somewhere?
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