One element of both the Poker and Interview Experiments was that they involved one participant receiving sensor information and interpreting it. Some may question the ability of untrained participants to assess sensor data, especially given that it was at time noisy and that the instructions they had to interpret the data were flawed. Is this an explanation for the findings we have observed?

One would expect a persistent inability to understand sensor information to uniformly manifest itself in the performance of the participants tasked with interpreting. However, there is some evidence to the contrary. For instance in the Interview experiment a trend occurred in hiring performance in response to different motivators. This suggests that interviewers did respond in different ways to different groups of interviewers based solely on sensor information (since the interviewers themselves never knew of the interviewee's motivator). Also MixedEmotions displayed video of the face, which even untrained participants should have been able to interpret.