Can Courts Actually Detect Lies?
The "deception cues" used in courts, police interrogations, and jury rooms are scientifically inverted. They flag truthful people as liars. Here's the proof — run it yourself.
If you're autistic, you look guilty by default. If you're not white, you look guilty by default. If English isn't your first language, you look guilty by default. This isn't opinion. Run the numbers yourself.
The 10 Studies
Trial Testimony
Trained a computer on the same "deception cues" courts use. It couldn't tell truth from lies. Humans: 54%.
Confession Linguistics
False confessors say "you" 7.59x more and "that's" 11.67x more. They're echoing interrogators, not confessing.
Belief vs Reality
74% of things people think indicate lying actually indicate truth-telling. Surveyed across 75 countries.
Convergence
Meta-analysis across all studies. Same direction, same conclusion. Not a fluke.
Four Pillars
Four completely independent lines of evidence. Detection at chance, memory distortion, false confessions, detention effects.
Autism Compounding
Autistic people's natural behaviour maps perfectly onto what courts call "deceptive." 3.5x more false alarms.
Cross-Cultural
A Mexican person telling the truth looks "deceptive" to a white American jury. Same for Romanian, Indian speakers.
Language & Birthplace
Where you're born determines what you speak. Not genes. Census data, N=1.8 billion person-years.
Environmental Determination
Your postcode predicts your outcomes better than anything about you personally. Language predicts college better than ancestry.
The Framework
Mathematical proof of what real consensus looks like. Borrows from Bitcoin. Courts produce verdicts, not truth.
Run It Yourself
You don't need a science degree. You need Python and 5 minutes.
Get the code
Download the ZIP from GitHub, or:
git clone https://github.com/webmasterproT/signal-inversion-research.git cd signal-inversion-research
Set up (one time)
bash setup.sh # Mac / Linux python3 setup_windows.py # Windows
Run all studies
bash run_all.sh # Mac / Linux python3 run_windows.py # Windows
Or run just one: bash run_one.sh 7 (cross-cultural)
See the results
Each study's results/ folder has the output. results/figures/ has the charts. WHAT_THIS_PROVES.md explains it in plain language.