Found a way to measure silences in deposition transcripts

Was going through a transcript from a 2019 case and got bored of counting filler words, so I started marking the pauses — not just lengths, but what the speaker did right before going quiet. Turns out the pattern holds: people who touch their mouth before a long silence are usually about to lie, and people who let the silence sit without saving it are usually telling the truth. I've been doing this for years without formalizing it; now I have a little flagging system. It's not publishable. It's just useful.