Micro Expressions Day 1

Yes yes I know its been over a month and I have not updated. Okay so I may have lied a little back then, but I'm back now! Anyway let us get on with it. I have some extra time since I am waiting for my hair to dry before I head to bed.
So, on TV there is a show called "Lie to Me." Basically, this show has a group of "deception experts" that go around solving problems. In other words, they are mobile lie detectors. A friend named Ellen Yoon told me about the show. I occasionally take advise and do it on a whim, so I decided to do it for that. I went to Hulu and looked up the show. It was a new show that had only three episodes out. I gave the show a view. Normally, pilots of a series usually are bad, but Lie to Me had a pilot that was pretty catching. Apparently, when a person lies, there are micro expressions in their face that can hint that they are lying. I was intrigued so I did some further research. These micro expressions are so faint and quick that they only last at MAXIMUM a tenth of a second, so these expressions can be shorter. In the show, the deception experts looked for signs like these. There was something that I did not like about the show however. When the show would portray someone lying, they would either show signs on the liar that way too quick for the normal eye, or perhaps signs that were not even there, or they made the liar INCREDIBLY obvious that he was lying. I did not want to learn from a TV show, especially one that did a terrible job at portraying things, so I took matters into my own hands. I did some more research the day before yesterday about micro expressions and found a couple things interesting.
Apparently, micro expressions are different with every person. Some people will flutter their eyes, twitch their lips, lick them, blink a lot, the list goes on. Some of these signs are so subtle that they are nearly impossible to identify. Have you ever had that "gut feeling" that someone does not like you when you first meet them? Its due to micro expressions that you pick up when you first meet someone. I wanted to give this deception detection a try and decided to see if I could find any videos online of people lying/telling the truth on Youtube. I found a video of a person who did a project on micro expressions. He had a couple of people write five emotion driven facts about themselves. The thing was, three of them were true and two of them were false. He would identify the expressions as the video went on. During the last two minutes, he gave the viewers a test. An elderly man said five facts of himself. I was only able to get one of them correct. I wanted to do more exercises like that, but I could not find more videos. I decided maybe I should try this out on my friends.
Earlier yesterday, I got a few people into my friend Mae's room and asked a few people to write down five facts about themselves and make three true and two false. Long story short, I was only able to get one right on two of them and none right on one. It looked like I had a lot of practice to do. Eventually, we began to say facts right off the top of our heads so it kept the thinking to a minimum. I can say that I only got half of the guess right, but that was not good enough since statistically I am supposed to get half of them right, it was either true or false. Not only that, there were some people who messed around a little, and it would cause everyone to laugh or look away, so this interfered with my "research." Every single time I thought I found the micro expression that told me a fact was a lie was contradicted. I felt as if things were going no where, and I was on the verge of giving up.
I tried thinking of reasons why this was not working, but did not come up with anything. Eventually, I received another "test subject." Her name was Dawn and she was not in the room for most of the testing so I asked her a couple questions. The questions then turned into a "story" where she would answer multiple questions rapidly, like an interview. There was one thing that really caught my eye when she spoke. She said that her family was close together, but right at that moment, her eyes wandered to the left for a faction of a second. No one was even there in that direction, so she was not looking at someone. Later, I discovered that her family being close together was a lie! I began to wonder why I was able to clearly see it in her face when she lied.
That night and went home and thought of a conclusion. Perhaps the only reason why it was so hard to find lies on my friends faces and why micro expressions I thought I found contradicted was because my "test subjects" were aware of the experiment. The experiment was turned on me some time through the test, and I realized that when I was asked questions, I knew what they were trying to look for, so I would forcibly keep a relaxed face. I WANTED to fool them, and that was the ultimate goal. Perhaps that was what happened when I tested my friends. Perhaps they wanted to fool me because they knew what I was looking for. I came to this conclusion on Day 1 of testing.
Next time when I test for micro expressions, I need to look for random subjects, some that will not have that much time to prepare for this. I also have to keep what I am looking for a secret because if the subjects knew I was trying to catch deception through their faces, that could interfere with everything. Another error I had before was that I made people repeat what they said, to catch any other expressions, but this may have been a bad idea because the next couple of times the subject said it, it would be easier for them to make it look like the truth. What I should do is record the subject saying something and have them say it only once. This way I can watch over the footage as many times as I need. I can even slow things down frame by frame to look for expressions slowly.
This is only Day 1 of my "research" and I guess you can say I am a "noob" when it comes to catching lies...for now.