Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about why your creep radar is probably terrible,

the science of spontaneous human combustion, and the one belief that determines

employee honesty.

Well, satisfy some curiosity.

Research suggests you're really bad at figuring out who's a creep. And knowing why could help you be a little less

biased. So let's talk about how we judge other people. The typical advice says that if someone comes

off as a creep, you should avoid them.

That seems logical, but it's also dead wrong, at least according to one small but persuasive

Canadian study.

To figure out how reliable our first impressions are about who's creepy and who's not,

the researchers needed to find pools of both certified creeps and certified good guys.

They came up with a clever solution.

For the creeps, they gathered pictures of criminals from the America's

Most Wanted list and for non-Creeps they used photos of past Nobel Peace Prize

winners. Then they showed the photos to a small group of volunteers to see if they could tell one from the other.

The results? In this experiment, participants did slightly worse than if they'd flipped a coin.

They correctly identified 49% of the wanted criminals as untrustworthy.

Not good.

And the findings imply some bad stuff about human nature.

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