The Wizards Project was a research project conducted by Paul Ekman and Maureen O’Sulllivan, which studied the ability of people to detect lies.
What this reserach showed was that for the average person being able to detect deception is not an easy task. Most people can detect deceit only about 50% of the time, which is the statistical equivalent of flipping a coin. However, the Wizards Project study purported that there is a very small group of people who are extraordinarily adept at detecting deception with more than an 80% accuracy rate. These individuals were deemed “Truth Wizards”.