Absolutely Revolutionary New Product!

I must admit that I’m a gadget guy. I love to read magazines at the barber shop and see all the new things that companies have invented. I’m a fly-fisherman, too, and people even make fun of the vests we wear to hold all of our gadgets. None of these gadgets is revolutionary, just something that makes some task a little easier

This new discovery I’m about to tell you about, however, has the potential, and I’m not kidding here, of revolutionizing the American economy.

The problem faced by anyone buying a product or service is trying to arrive at the truth. It seems to me that truth is not uniformly distributed throughout the universe. In some places it is abundant, while in others it seems entirely absent.

Wouldn’t it be neat to be able to hook up those sources of information to a lie detector? Because most of the information we get about these is from the movies, I don’t know how reliable they are, but in concept it would solve a few problems. You’d just strap the salesman in and start asking questions. Obviously, that isn’t practical.

But then I read about recent advances in speech analysis. Basically, the technology exists to analyze speech patterns and tell if someone is telling the truth or not. When someone is lying or in one way or another attempting to deceive you, there are subtle changes in the voice, changes which are impossible for you to detect while listening.

But the computer can tell. It can look at telltale signals from graphs of the voice and tell if someone is being stressed by the answer they are giving. Not only that, the recording of a voice, whether in person or over the phone, can be done without the other party knowing that what they say is being recorded for future analysis.

So let’s assume that you are in the market for a home or a mortgage. You interview agents, asking them questions that are important to you. After all the data are collected, you run their answers through your computer program and see who is telling you the truth. If you are like many people I hear from, you’d find that a lot of statements that you’d heard just were not truthful.

This is especially important in the mortgage business where, if I am to believe those who tell me this, over half of all loan reps routinely lie about the rates their companies offer. “Ah ha!” you say, “But I got a Good Faith Estimate in writing.” The fact is that those inappropriately named estimates are not binding on the lender and cannot be relied upon.

But if you have your trusty computer with the program installed, you could tell which of the quotes you were given are truthful. What a deal! Purchasing agents all across the country would have them too so as to filter claims made by the salesmen who visit them.

Now, before you go off to Sharper Image to buy this device, I have to tell you that at present, it is only being sold to governmental bodies, typically law enforcement agencies. And there are enough issues with privacy here that they may never be made available to the general public.

So what’s a body to do? Well, you still ought to be trying to find truthful purveyors of information. I’d do it the old fashioned way; I’d ask friends for referrals. Certainly some of them will have dealt with a wonderful, dedicated, truth-telling person, and that’s who you want to go see too.

For those who might be interested in learning more about this subject, go to the website of The National Institute For Truth Verification at www.cvsa1.com.

Good luck!