According to the article Pants On Fireabout the detection of high stake lies, Ekman found a correlation
between ability to detect high stakes lies and ability to detect microexpressions.
Does this mean that being
good at detecting microexpressions causes someone to be good at detecting lies? (a) yes, because the two are so strongly related
(b) yes, for some people
(c) no, because the data were only correlational
(d) no, because the correlations were not statistically significant
C
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