Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?
Scientific Content Analysis, or SCAN for short. I must admit I'd never heard of it before, but it is apparently widely used in law enforcement all over the world, despite seeming, to my untutored eyes, like so much hogwash.
SCAN ... encourages the asking of a simple, open question: What happened? After the person writes a statement, the SCAN investigator looks for signs of deception, analyzing, among other things, pronouns used, changes in vocabulary, what’s left out and how much of a statement is devoted to what happened before, during and after an event. Indications of truthfulness include use of the past tense, first-person singular (“I went to the store”); pronouns, such as “my,” which signal commitment; and direct denials, the best being: “I did not do it.” Signs of deception include lack of memory, spontaneous corrections and swapping one word in for another — for example, writing “kids” in one place and “children” in another.
But who am I to judge, when I have the combined minds of the International Skeptics Forum to do that?
Scientific Content Analysis, or SCAN for short. I must admit I'd never heard of it before, but it is apparently widely used in law enforcement all over the world, despite seeming, to my untutored eyes, like so much hogwash.
SCAN ... encourages the asking of a simple, open question: What happened? After the person writes a statement, the SCAN investigator looks for signs of deception, analyzing, among other things, pronouns used, changes in vocabulary, what’s left out and how much of a statement is devoted to what happened before, during and after an event. Indications of truthfulness include use of the past tense, first-person singular (“I went to the store”); pronouns, such as “my,” which signal commitment; and direct denials, the best being: “I did not do it.” Signs of deception include lack of memory, spontaneous corrections and swapping one word in for another — for example, writing “kids” in one place and “children” in another.
But who am I to judge, when I have the combined minds of the International Skeptics Forum to do that?
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