by Jason Apollo Voss | 02 08 2022 | Blog, DATA
Let’s cut to the chase, most finance pros clutch to mistaken beliefs about deception. How do we know this? In 2015 “Detecting Lies in the Financial Industry: A Survey of Investment Professionals’ Beliefs”* was published in the Journal of Behavioral Finance and was the...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 26 07 2022 | Blog, DATA
Using our Deception And Truth Analysis (D.A.T.A.) algorithm we were able to consistently best the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 37 bps, on average, each year (’09 thru ’21). Using the 30 components of the DJIA we created a simple...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 19 07 2022 | Blog, DATA
Deception And Truth Analysis, Inc. has spent almost a decade working with deception scientists and studying multiple methods of deception and truth detection. Based on this knowledge we developed Deception And Truth Analysis, a proprietary algorithm based on...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 12 07 2022 | Blog, DATA
At Deception And Truth Analysis (D.A.T.A.) we are frequently asked by our Clients, investors, and the curious: Are deception and lying different? Also, what about fraud? This may seem a boring topic, but we have an institutional view that shapes so much of what we do....
by Jason Apollo Voss | 06 07 2022 | Blog, DATA
At Deception And Truth Analysis (D.A.T.A.) we believe that investors are frequently like the proverbial drunk looking for their keys under the streetlamp; not because that is where they lost their keys, but because that is where the light is. What makes us say that?...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 30 06 2022 | Blog, DATA
Whenever deception detection is discussed, people inevitably start talking about their favorite body language cues, often popularly portrayed on television and in the media. These range from lack of eye contact on the part of a deceiver, excessive fidgeting, taking...
