I see cant stop saying the word before its out. 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
Totally agree. Things like "leakage" are when people say things that they didn't intend to say. Like when the brain is going to fast for the mouth and the mouth can't stop the word. Maybe it's not leakage but "overflowing brain". Analysis of a transcript can't really stand alone. And for me the non-verbals are so important that go with the words. Sure we all do analysis of what people say and watch their behaviour and the context is very important. When VDK stumbled over Snake river instead of Salmon SAR I thought this might be a little leakage or overflowing brain.
I'm referring to is the statement analysis that goes far beyond this that is packaged as a business and a more exact method of interpreting transcripts, and says well this word means this or that. Like there is some sort of code that can be used to decipher the truth. Of this I am skeptical. And when people create a whole package like this and sell it as "the panacea" sort of thing I get suspicious and question. Sorry if I rattled anyone's cage too much - but I've seen packages sold as magic bullets and there aren't too many magic bullets.
I wish LE had one to solve this case.