Originally Posted by
SeriouslyLost
That's weird because all the actual science about it says that it doesn't really work. Even the Israeli's say that it's marginal as a field activity and that they have to have people with actual degrees in psych & CogSci and the like along with constant training to get even vaguely reasonable results. I wish it wasn't SSI so that TSA could tell us how it works so well for them with their high school grads with their ~20 hours of training.
How is it you can speak for the entire Israeli security force? Education has nothing to do with it. The founder says: Paul Ekman, a San Francisco psychologist who helped design the TSA program, said it can be effective. But it needs more study, he said.
"The shortcoming is, we don't know how many people are showing suspicious behaviors and aren't being noticed," Ekman said.