These academics would be richly rewarded, in and out of academia, for finding human lie detectors
When a businessman wants to detect liars, he is not going to turn to academia.
The strange inability of academia to detect a propensity to bad behavior, or to acknowledge that anyone else can detect such propensities is based on their horror of “discrimination”
Recall that you could tell the shoe bomber was a terrorist at forty paces, you could tell on sight that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was some kind of criminal and up to no good, and yet the TSA insists on groping the genitals of six year old girls.
Although academics can supposedly scientifically prove it is impossible to detect propensities to behave badly, they are able to do a remarkably good job at detecting the slightest propensity to engage in politically incorrect thoughts.
Shrinkage’ is and remains a problem in retail;
Retail has low value stuff, low wage employees. High value stuff, you hire more carefully, high wage employees, you can hire more carefully.
Retail has shrinkage because they don’t care that much about shrinkage. When they do care about shrinkage, they can and routinely do solve the problem, notwithstanding academics piously saying it cannot be done.
The point is that the predictions are not made by a hypothetical ‘character’.
Yet, oddly, businesses bet on character all the time. That you cannot tell is political correctness that all normal people ridicule, much as they ridicule the TSA.
When a businessman wants to detect liars, he is not going to turn to academia.
The strange inability of academia to detect a propensity to bad behavior, or to acknowledge that anyone else can detect such propensities is based on their horror of “discrimination”
Recall that you could tell the shoe bomber was a terrorist at forty paces, you could tell on sight that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was some kind of criminal and up to no good, and yet the TSA insists on groping the genitals of six year old girls.
Although academics can supposedly scientifically prove it is impossible to detect propensities to behave badly, they are able to do a remarkably good job at detecting the slightest propensity to engage in politically incorrect thoughts.
Retail has low value stuff, low wage employees. High value stuff, you hire more carefully, high wage employees, you can hire more carefully.
Retail has shrinkage because they don’t care that much about shrinkage. When they do care about shrinkage, they can and routinely do solve the problem, notwithstanding academics piously saying it cannot be done.
Yet, oddly, businesses bet on character all the time. That you cannot tell is political correctness that all normal people ridicule, much as they ridicule the TSA.