Question

Bond and DePaulo (2006) analyzed the results from 384 studies that tested the lie-detecting ability of more than 24,000 people and found that: Group of answer choices about 50% of people are especially clairvoyant and able to discern truths from lies. the accuracy rate of most people is barely above the 50% guessing level. most people can rather accurately guess whether they are told the truth or a lie. training people can substantially increase their lie-detecting ability.

Answer 1

B: the accuracy rate of most people is barely above the 50% guessing level

Explanation:

Bond and DePaul carried out a research and analysis on the accuracy of deception judgments in 2016.

This research involved synthesizing of results gotten from 206 research documents as well as a total of 24483 judges.

In this research and analysis, there were a couple of discoveries when people tried to discriminate lies from the truth and these discoveries include; average percentage of correct lie-truth judgments, percentage of those who correctly classified lies as deception and also percentage of those who classified truths as non-deceptive e.t.c. In conclusion, part of their discoveries was that the accuracy rate of most people is barely above the 50% guessing level.

This corresponds to option B.