ReadySet
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I will - it is a method used by the FBI and LE and hats off to you if you think the FBI are wrong to use it :drumroll:
I see statement analysis like a lot of other things--a helpful tool, but not always the end-all and be-all.
When I switched from teaching elementary to middle school, I found that the older students were harder to read, and I'm a person who tends to take people at face value. I would walk into the staff room and say, "Did you know Student X can't do any homework this week because he has to go to Paris?" "Really, Ms. ReadySet? You believe that Student X has to go to Paris?" etc.
So I started reading about Body Language Analysis and Statement Analysis. Statement Analysis helped me the most. I take it with a grain of salt when I read an analysis, depending on who is doing it, but there are some principles that ring true to me, and I do use it. So, for me, it would be cutting off our nose to spite our face, to disregard it.
And I really, really believe that if someone doesn't say something, you can't say it for them!
ETA: It's not that statement analysis can tell if someone's lying, IMO, it's that it can tell if their are red flags that need to be looked into further. JMO