Ferris Mx’s Reviews > Attention-Seeking Behavior > Status Update

The conclusion of Kasin's research directly opposed Ekman's: "Special training in deception detection may lead investigators to make pre-judgments of guilt, with high confidence, that are biased and frequently ine rror." By now you will be familiar with the lethal combination that confidence and inaccuracy represent. You should know that this knowledge has had very little impact on modern policing.

I thought her version sounded much worse and less coherent, but she presented me with it and told me this was exactly how I should write all future press releases. I said "okay", although I knew the only way to achieve this would be to reach her level of intellect, which seemed an unlikely course of events unless I took up running into walls as a hobby.

At one point she asked me where my grandparents were from, which is the precursor to a certain type of middle-aged European engaging in amateur eugenics, and I briefly wonder if grandparents should become a protected characteristic.

The last question was Desdemona's attempt to confirm my class status and although I knew it would benefit me to lie, there really was no way to - rich people knew how to identify these markers faster and better than anyone else and I knew that my answer wouldn't actually reveal anything, it would just confirm her suspicions.

but then I realised that although the contents of the email weren't technically unusual, it was sent by the company's CEO and not some assistant running recruitment, and the final sentence of the email was "it will be lovely meeting you..." before the CEO's signature. This obviously set off some alarm bells, the ellipsis above all, but then I felt that any place that would consider hiring me would seem like a scam.

My favourite was when we'd start with "you should know this about me" followed by something either innocuous, absurd or universal. "You should know this about me, I have to sleep a certain number of hours to survive", "You should know this about me, there was a brief period when I was a baby where I couldn't walk or talk", "You should know this about me, I was the guy who shot JFK and I'm worried I will kill again."