Blake Eastman

Founder, The Nonverbal Group · 2 appearances on the record.

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Blake Eastman founded The Nonverbal Group, a research and education firm analyzing human behavior and nonverbal cues. A former City University of New York psychology instructor and poker player, he also established the School of Cards and created Beyond Tells, a behavioral study on poker players.

29statements → 4claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.76/5average certainty → 2.31/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

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1 prediction · 3 assertions · 5 opinions · 15 insights · 4 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Blake argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Eastman: Video recording observer effect disappears within ten minutes

“The truth is, people, like, will talk about the observer effect with video and all that, it goes away in, like, 10 minutes. Like, if you have, like, a small iPhone, you forget about it, and you're actually seeing patterns of behavior”

Blake Eastman Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 23:07 Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Eastman: A UPenn study shows faster speakers gain more attention despite nonsense

“There was one cool study, I think, out of, like, UPenn that found that, like, people that talk faster are listened to at a greater level, even though what they're saying is nonsense.”

Blake Eastman Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 49:21 Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Blake Eastman on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said29 Episodes2

Everything Blake Eastman said on the Knowledge Project that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported

Eastman: MMPI-II detects lying by repeating questions across 530 items

“There's always, and that's why, like, one of the biggest tests I think still use, the MMPI-II, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, it's like, 530 questions, and a lot of the inventory is asking questions in different ways, so you don't remember what y…”

Blake Eastman Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 11:54 Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone

Insight

Eastman: Managing contextual communicators is easier than dealing with hyperliteral people

“So it's easier to deal with the people that are more contextual and lower them down than the hyperliteral.”

Blake Eastman Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 36:34 Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone

Disclosure

Eastman: I completely disagree today with my 2016 poker tell videos

“I have videos out there that I made in 2016 about poker tells, that over the past eight years, I've completely changed my mind and thoughts about that. There's videos of me saying things that I completely disagree with today.”

Blake Eastman Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 57:52 Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Eastman predicts full confidence in ChatGPT's research queries by mid-2024

“In six months from now, I think I'll have full confidence in these things.”

Blake Eastman Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 1:16:38 Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone

Disclosure

Eastman: Research team is analyzing behavioral patterns across Tim Ferriss's interviews

“So we're doing a thing on how to ask better questions. So we're taking some really good question people, like one of the people that I've seen evolve is Tim Ferriss, his ability to ask questions in a certain way. And we basically take every single interview he…”

Blake Eastman Jan 9, 2024 ▶ 1:31:28 Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone

Appearances (2)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year	Dec 24, 2024	7m
Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone	Jan 9, 2024	1h 12m