Talwar at McGill and Kang Lee at the University of Toronto (2002) studied lying in three- to seven-year-old Canadians. Based on their findings, which of the following statements is FALSE?
A)Neither parents nor strangers could tell if the older children were lying when they reviewed the children's videotaped answers.
B)Police and customs officers trained in lie-detection failed to discriminate between lie- and truth-tellers.
C)80 percent of the older children in their study lied.
D)Young children were unable to tell elaborate lies.

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Young children, even as young as three years old, have been found capable of telling lies, including elaborate ones. The statement that young children were unable to tell elaborate lies is false; research has shown that children can and do tell complex lies from a young age.