now that we know the secrets we will never be caught.

I think I would be pretty good at making it look plausible if I was lying, but regardless I would prefer this to a normal lie detector test. those things scare me, I feel like I would get too anxious and it would show I was lying even when I was telling the truth. they should figure out other ways to test whether people are lying besides drawing the location.

btw some people use a strange perspective even when they are looking directly at the object. we call it angel view, it's like drawing the scene from a tree or a bird's eye even though you're flat on the ground.

uh, no?  idk if someone told me to draw my dorm room i'm not gonna draw a floor plan

i perfer the cut off a finger until they tell you what you want to hear method

it's kinda hard to show all four walls at once

maybe you could see if he's lying based on neurological activity of remembering, but certainly you couldn't tell just by looking at the drawing. without drawing training most people tend to draw an over head perspective, or at least show more of what you really see of an object - regardless this would make lots of honest people seem like liars. to just be able to look at a drawing and say someone is lying is completely... over simplified.

this isn't the most innovative of ideas, it's unlikely to make honest people seem like liars though. it's basically the same as picking up on "THE SUN WAS IN MY EYES SO I HAD TO SQUINT IN THE ELEVATOR." it wouldn't be "YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND STYLE ARE A DEAD GIVEAWAY"

but hundley, obama says that don't work

it's kinda hard to show all four walls at once

Not really just draw the room like you're looking at the ceiling

that's the opposite of a top down view dummy!

This is a little off-topic but it relates so I'm going to say it. When you think of any memory you have of yourself, do you picture yourself in that memory from a 3rd person view (even though we see things from 1st person)? I do and it just amazes me how the mind is able to construct memories that are obviously false, adding in details of oneself from a completely different perspective than actually experienced.

The shoulder-view makes in truth tellers makes sense then, but still with some of my memories I can see myself from the front.. weird.

those wouldn't even look like houses if they were right side up

i wish they did more research to confirm what we think happens

We had an assignment when I was in an 8th grade art class where we were supposed to draw our bedrooms. My father had been in construction and had been into drafting. A lot of my early computer time (when I wasn't playing Golden Axe, Kings Quest, or Quest for Glory games) was spent with CAD. For the assignment, I naturally drew a top down perspective.

A lot of time, when I try to call up something from way back in my memory, I see the scene in a first person 360 view. (An example being my recollection of a restaurant my parents took me too once when I was six) But, since I had a hard time expressing that on paper, I drew it as an overhead. Then again, I remember what everyone ordered, conversations I overheard from the bar section, etc.

To me it sounds more like the study could be interpreted as "art majors tell the truth, regular people lie."

I used to sketch/doodle with my off hand when I was writing essays in school (and at the time I was ambidextrous enough to switch off which hand I actually did the writing with). I remember being asked to stay after for the stupidest things, because apparently I also did this on some tests. I'd just scribble some random crap while I was answering. Evidently, I did some scenes of graphic violence or depravity on a vocabulary test at one point. That wasn't the issue though - instead they were concerned because it was an exact (well, close enough to concern them) reflection of something I'd scribbled out earlier.  Never mind the fact the tests were boring/easy enough I could draw during them, the teacher's were concerned because they thought it meant I was cheating somehow!\

And, that picture of the houses reminds me a little bit of South Florida after hurricane Andrew... Then again it could just be the palm plant and the thigh tile roofing.

that sounds like something an art major would say..

he was joking. you can tell because his post didn't have many details

if you really think this then you are an idiot.

If you were incapable of discerning what my comment inferred, that those with a strong artistic background would naturally perform better than someone who could hardly even sketch out a smiley face without detailed instructions, then you are in no position whatsoever to make judgments about the presumed mental deficiencies of others.

It doesn't sound like a bad study, only a loose one. There are contributory factors I would like to know: how wide was the sample set, what did the makeup of the control groups look like, and was the study were carried out as a double blind? With those answers we might start getting someplace. I always find studies that prove exactly what they were designed too a little suspect. I will concede, however, that I am only working from the article's description as I wasn't able to get the link for the actual study to load for whatever reason, so these conditions may have already been met by the experiment.