Let's try and be deceptive in our list.
I'm going to move to a different physical location and write a new list of things in front of me, but I'm going to lie about two of the items.
Can you tell which items are lies?
Box of brown guacamole left over from yesterday
Jar of peanut butter
Empty kombucha bottles with plants growing out of them
Cardboard box full of white and yellow papers
A post-it note with a computer password written in code
The last two are lies.
Truth:
Lies:
Could you tell? Were you certain?
If not, why are these lies more convincing than the fabrications in the previous example?
Was it hard to come up with plausible deceptions? Why?