What If You Could Hear Every Lie… and Mom's Was the Loudest?

What if you could hear every lie? One Tuesday morning, every lie starts to buzz — a low, ugly sound only you can hear. Your boss. Your best friend. A bank boss on live TV with nine million people watching. And then your mom calls and says, "I'm fine." 🔬 SCIENCE NOTES • The average person tells 1–2 lies a day, and about half of all lies come from just 5% of people (Serota, Levine & Boster, 2010, Human Communication Research: doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2009.01366.x) • People spot lies only 54% of the time — basically a coin flip (Bond & DePaulo, 2006, meta-analysis of 206 studies: doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr1003_2) • Most lies between friends are kind ones (DePaulo et al., 1996, "Lying in everyday life": doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.70.5.979) • Most courts won't accept polygraph results (United States v. Scheffer, 1998: www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/523/303) • People lie more on phone calls than in emails: 37% of calls vs 14% of emails in one diary study (Hancock et al., 2004, CHI: doi.org/10.1145/985692.985709) Grand Harbor Bank, Victor Crane and the Gold Saver Plan are fictional. ❓ Would YOU keep this power or give it back? Tell me in the comments. 🔔 More impossible lives:    / @youbutif   Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): "Lightless Dawn", "Investigations", "Sneaky Adventure", "Spy Glass", "Thatched Villagers", "Hustle", "Comedic Juggernaut", "Fluffing a Duck", "Bittersweet", "Heartbreaking", "Inspired". Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Voices: generated with Chatterbox (MIT license). Art and animation: made by the channel. #whatif #animation #story