Grumpy Old Geeks Topics Detecting lies in text messages Topic Detecting lies in text messages 2 mentions in 1 episode The hosts question the sample size of a study about linguistic signs of deception in messages. Mentions 492: Silovaya Ustanovka Jan 20, 2021 14:26 This is how to tell if someone's lying to you via text. 15:17 The researchers started with 1,703 conversations and after removing all those that didn't contain any lies, were left with 351.