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I don't necessarily disagree with your point (although I think you overstate it), but this part is at least partially wrong:

Even the ability of decades-experienced police officers who SWEAR they can read people only perform as well as random chance.

Some people (perhaps 0.25% of the population) can do significantly better than chance. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_Project



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