We Stand Corrected
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Jack has a list of old-timey baby names that are apparently making a comeback, and our ombudsman brought an error to our attention that must be rectified.
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| 0:00.0 | Isaac, Ernest, Archie, thanks for listening. |
| 0:03.1 | It's one more thing. |
| 0:04.8 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:06.3 | One more thing. |
| 0:10.1 | You're going to thank everybody. |
| 0:11.5 | It's going to take you out because we're huge. |
| 0:13.4 | I'll explain that in a second. |
| 0:14.6 | I've got this. |
| 0:15.4 | Will this trick let you know if your kids are lying to you? |
| 0:20.5 | It's just handed to me. If you're a parent, you can smell about 90% of your kids are lying to you. Let's just handed to me. |
| 0:21.6 | If you're a parent, you can smell about 90% of your kids lies, right? |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, it is amazing. |
| 0:30.3 | But here's a trick, according to UK researchers. |
| 0:35.5 | That liars who have to multitask are much easier to expose. |
| 0:39.1 | The idea is that lying requires more mental energy than telling the truth. |
| 0:42.5 | That's interesting. |
| 0:43.7 | Oh, yeah, that's clearly true. |
| 0:44.9 | So giving an additional unrelated task to think about makes it more of a struggle to maintain a lie. |
| 0:51.8 | Wow. |
| 0:53.7 | Wow. This rings true. So how would I apply that? You'd say, yeah, I want to talk to you about how the, to cite a particularly idiotic sitcom example. I want to talk to you about how the cookie jar got broken while we clean this chair. |
| 1:12.9 | Or I don't know. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm trying to think what would be a task that would take at least minimal mental energy. |
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