How many lies have you told in the past 24 hours? Find out how your lying compares to the average person's, writes CharacterGap
Recent research has found that the distribution of lying is highly skewed.Source: Theodore Palser/PublicDomainPictures
In recent years, additional empirical research on lying has painted a fuller picture of our lying behavior. In apublished in 2010, for instance, Kim Serota and his colleagues gave a survey on lying to 1,000 Americans and found the same average again . But the distribution of lying across this group was highly skewed. A whopping 59.9 percent said they didn’t lie at all during the past day. On the flip side, of the total number of lies reported, fully half were told by—get this—only 5.
“In the past 24 hrs, how many times have you lied? Write in one number for your total lies. If you told no lies, write in ‘0.’”A lot, and indeed far too much to report here. But these are some of the highlights: How many participants in the study belonged to each of these groups over the course of the three months? Once again, we see a big skew:74.7 percent of participants, and 65.8 percent of the total days the survey was administered.19.6 percent of participants, and 10.0 percent of the total days the survey was administered.5.7 percent of participants, and 4.0 percent of the total days the survey was administered.
Serota and his colleagues take their findings to support some important conclusions, which they summarize in their own words as follows:The distribution of lying is positively skewed.The telling of specific lies is situationally determined.
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