Landlording

I am still not used to sitting at the position of power, mainly because I am so used to thinking that the locals knows more about the culture than I do and that I have so much more I need to learn. My thought patterns are still very strange, I know so because so many people I just met have told me so.

At the same time, because of the fact that I think in weird ways, my conversations with applicants usually catches them by surprise, making them at a loss for how to best respond and allowing me to glimpse at their core through their uncertainty. My ability really shines through when combined with 12 years of drifting and living with strangers whom later become friends. I can probably safely say that I have a good eye when it comes to judging people and putting it at a 70% confidence (found good roomate vs bad roomate ratio). My facial expression reading at 80% accuracy, relationship prediction at about 90%, resistance against pretty girls at 30%. Now I just need to figure out how much each weight into a formula for finding a good tenant. (Forgot to mention. 100% in judging a person’s income until 100k)

What I am interested in today, is whether or not pretty people lie more. The assumption is that I won’t be able to detect pretty people’s lies because as a normal human, I will tend to favor pretty people more. And the few data points I gathered tells me that I do indeed have this bias. Or it could be that pretty people are just that more successful and have less need to lie. Job wise, car wise and habit wise. I wish I could get paid to sit in an office interviewing tenants all day. It’s like eating buckets of chocolate for my insane, autonomous, number crunching subconscious that I constructed and don’t know how to turn off.

Yes brain, I am talking to you, I don’t want to know the price of a whole roast chicken at every grocery store in a 10km radius while driving to Starbucks.