Othello error Othello error Othello error occurs when a suspicious observer discounts cues of truthfulness. Essentially the Othello error occurs, Paul Ekman states, "when the lie catcher fails to consider that a truthful person who is under stress may appear to be lying" their non-verbal signals expressing their worry at the possibility of being disbelieved. A lie-detector or polygraph may be deceived in the same way, by misinterpreting nervous signals from a truthful person. The error is named after William Shakespeare's tragic play "Othello"; the dynamics between the two main characters, Othello and Desdemona, are a particularly well-known example of the error
Othello station southeast corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street in 2011. A second phase of the project, the 355-apartment "Othello North", will be built on the north side of Othello Street and open in 2017. An additional low-income housing project was built north of Myrtle Street by Mercy Housing on surplus land used for equipment staging, which was auctioned by Sound Transit for $1.9 million in 2014. The 108-apartment building opened in July 2017, with its lowest rents at $450 per month. The southwest corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street was planned to be