Elementary 3×17
& Holmes: You’re beginning to see the wisdom in keeping an ocean in between one’s self and one’s relatives.
Watson: Oh, right, because you and your family— you’ve got it all figured out. Right. Nothing weird about you guys.
Holmes: ... Were it not for the evolutionary quirk that a mature human brain cannot pass through a dilated cervix, we might be rid of the pair bond between parent and child entirely.
& Holmes: Family is the tie that binds, but while one end undergirds human civilization, the other is a noose, choking away our individuation... You can cut the cord, Watson.
& Holmes: Well, you would be doing us a great service if you could just set the stage one more time. And, please, leave out no details. You never know what grain might be useful.
& Holmes: His story never changes. Ergo, lying.
& Holmes: Our meeting today brought to mind this recent study by a group of psychologists. They found that counting the number of unique words used by witnesses was an exceptional lie detection technique. Liars stick to streamlined stories. They don’t deviate from the linguistic avenues they’ve already mapped out in their original telling. They use fewer words and particularly ones that evoke sense memory.
Watson: Because they’re not drawing from memory.
Holmes: Law enforcement agencies pour considerable resources into the study of microexpressions and into polygraph technology, but no matter how finely they measure facial tics and heart rates, they rarely do better than a coin flip. Tallying singular words may be the best way to root out liars such as Mr. Ford. And it’s absolutely free.
& Holmes: Crowbar, Watson. That’s how we do it in my family.
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