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Hans Niemann Body Language Analysis

A "body language expert" who has the body language of a tabloid speculator in the thumbnail. I am not watching it, sorry, I don't feel like being even more disappointed at what people expect you to believe. Please stop posting such ridiculous propaganda, people will start to think you are a stooge.
Sorry, I did not watch the entire video. Did he scratch his butt?
I've gotten five minutes into that video, and the host is just not very good at interpreting body language.

First thing; body language can't tell if someone is lying, it can only tell if someone is nervous. The whole thing is based on reading limbic system reactions, aka "fight or flight" responses. Lying is not a fight or flight response, it's a decision made after the decision to not flee. You can sometimes tell a person is lying if they're nervous about something people normally aren't nervous about. But an interview in which you have to say the most respected name in chess is blowing smoke is going to make a sane person nervous. The host here says we would expect confidence if he was telling the truth. No, we wouldn't.

There's a whole aside about Hans' accent which is irrelevant to begin with, but then he says we can tell Hans is lying because he's reading as nervous. But he's reading as less nervous than before when he was talking about cheating accusations; he's becoming more comfortable as the subject moves away from Carlsen.

The host comments on him messing up an idiom. GEE, I WONDER IF TRIPPING OVER HIS THOUGHTS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH HIS NERVOUSNESS IN THIS INTERNATIONALLY VIEWED INTERVIEW.

I'm not watching any further. It's a hit piece.
So when the maker of this video claims that reading body language is legit then let me read his body language in the video thumbnail: He is looking like a greasy used cars salesman trying to sell a wrecked shitbox with manipulated odometer as a grandmom car that lived in the garage for all its life and was only used on sundays.
He moved his hand 2 times in under 10 seconds cheating confirmed.
@Katzenschinken said in #6:
> So when the maker of this video claims that reading body language is legit then let me read his body language in the video thumbnail: He is looking like a greasy used cars salesman trying to sell a wrecked shitbox with manipulated odometer as a grandmom car that lived in the garage for all its life and was only used on sundays.
I think he looks like he wants to give you a bj while holding your balls.
Body language is not proof of anything, or else we could have "body language experts" in courts and use them to pass sentence on people based on body language alone.
A body language expert
A transgender that wants to compete in the women's chess section
An ex-casino employee or whatever this guy is

oh boy it gets better and better

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