honkeoki
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Not sure how many of you are regular New Yorker readers, so...
A guy named Paul Elkman has created a training program to help teach you how to read people's facial expressions -- the unconscious facial expressions we make instinctively, before we can mask our emotions.
Here's the guy's webpage:
http://www.emotionsrevealed.com/training_cds.php
The CD runs $50, but I think it's really worth it. (I don't work for him and derive no income whatsoever from any sales he makes -- only the satisfaction of knowing that my armed comrades can read people better.)
Now, on to a brief discussion of the great 2003 New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell:
Starts out by talking about a policeman who, during an encounter with a disturbed young man with a gun, didn't shoot him -- even though the officer was perfectly within his rights. Why not? The officer said he could tell the boy wasn't really dangerous.
Fast forward to the end of the article: The same policeman, sitting in the passenger side of a cruiser. A man in a trenchcoat walks toward the vehicle. The officer leans over his partner in the driver's seat, unholsters his pistol and shoots the man in the trenchcoat. No obvious weapons -- why did the officer shoot? He could see from the man's face that he was dangerous.
Turns out the guy in the trenchcoat had a homemade flamethrower under there and he'd just murdered a few people.
The moral of the story is -- once you learn to read these micro-facial expressions, you can vastly improve your analysis of a situation and an individual's threat potential.
Boy, are my fingers tired.
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Which would you prefer in the Oval Office: decorated war veteran or AWOL recovering alcoholic?
A guy named Paul Elkman has created a training program to help teach you how to read people's facial expressions -- the unconscious facial expressions we make instinctively, before we can mask our emotions.
Here's the guy's webpage:
http://www.emotionsrevealed.com/training_cds.php
The CD runs $50, but I think it's really worth it. (I don't work for him and derive no income whatsoever from any sales he makes -- only the satisfaction of knowing that my armed comrades can read people better.)
Now, on to a brief discussion of the great 2003 New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell:
Starts out by talking about a policeman who, during an encounter with a disturbed young man with a gun, didn't shoot him -- even though the officer was perfectly within his rights. Why not? The officer said he could tell the boy wasn't really dangerous.
Fast forward to the end of the article: The same policeman, sitting in the passenger side of a cruiser. A man in a trenchcoat walks toward the vehicle. The officer leans over his partner in the driver's seat, unholsters his pistol and shoots the man in the trenchcoat. No obvious weapons -- why did the officer shoot? He could see from the man's face that he was dangerous.
Turns out the guy in the trenchcoat had a homemade flamethrower under there and he'd just murdered a few people.
The moral of the story is -- once you learn to read these micro-facial expressions, you can vastly improve your analysis of a situation and an individual's threat potential.
Boy, are my fingers tired.
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Which would you prefer in the Oval Office: decorated war veteran or AWOL recovering alcoholic?
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. Illinois makes us wait until they actually act out their threat. And they are pretty specific about only the Department of Corrections conducting executions. Are you sure this isn't part of the plot of a science fiction movie?
really mad
Just got back from a party
