Originally Posted by
gsoltso
Ekman is correct in many of his statements. Mock situations are completely different than real situations. The stress load generated is completely different, and there is no serious worry about the end game. I wish I c0uold find it, but there were studies being done with folks having similar behavioral training (to TSA BDOs), and observing videos of folks in interviews, videos of interviews as well as discreet surveillance videos, and the results were surprisingly positive. One ran along the lines of 80% identified the individual that was lying, or being misleading. If I find the link I will include it later. It is not a "smoking gun" that many here are wanting, but it did show promise in being able to use scientific methodology to gain a better understanding of how the behavioral observation systems work and can be improved on - or inevitably scrapped as non-viable.
Clerk West, if any of that were true, there wouldn't be so many thefts and so false police reports and so much perjured court testimony by TSA clerks, because the behavior detection clerks would spot the criminals in their midst.
And you do know, don't you, that we have access to the behavior detection checklist. One of the items is "contempt for the screening process," and the others are equally risible.