Bo, (all); FWIW: Social media is the cheapest means of conducting otherwise impo

Bo, (all);

FWIW: Social media is the cheapest means of conducting otherwise impossible tests of how humans signal, negotiate, undermine, deny, deceive, and defraud that’s ever been possible.

Most of my work on ‘truth’ consists of ‘sciencing’ the logic and grammar of denying, suggestion, deception, lying and fraud, and anti-social, anti-political behavior. And the sex differences in doing so are perhaps one of the greatest contributions to behavioral science in recent years.

So, it’s no wonder no one has done a significant body of work on ‘human lying’ before I stumbled into it.

But that says something else about social media:
Without the threat of a slap or fist in the face – or worse, humans demonstrate behavior they would otherwise report. And humans get away with canceling the otherwise could not.

Thus solving the problem of social science: surveys are useless. And controlled testing is almost useless. But as we have learned from Economics: demonstrated behavior tells the truth. And social media is the psychological and social science equivalent of the telescope or microscope. And the science(logic) of lying is the behavioral equivalent of the discovery of the calculus.

Humans are fascinating. At least some insight into behavioral science has been possible because of it.

-Curt Doolittle
– The Natural Law Institute