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From Pine View Farm by Frank Bell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Poll on Lying 3

Americans’ attitudes on lying:

OVERALL: About four in 10 think lying is justified sometime, while just over half, 52 percent, said it is never justified. Asked whether lying is OK in a number of circumstances, about two-thirds, 65 percent, said it is at least sometimes OK to lie when trying to protect someone’s feelings. About four in 10 said it’s OK at times to exaggerate a story to make it more interesting, and lying to a child about a parent’s past misbehavior. About a third say it’s OK at times to lie about one’s age and lying about being sick to take a day off of work. Very few thought it was OK to lie on a resume, lie about cheating on a spouse or cheat on your taxes.

I couldn’t find anything in the story about lying to start a war.

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July 11, 2006 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Uncategorized |

3 comments

  1. Opie

    July 11, 2006 at 11:09 pm

    What percentage of pollsters think lying is OK?

    Oh, and I got that client working today. Thanks!

     
  2. Frank

    July 12, 2006 at 8:02 pm

    Glad you got it working.

    For the percentages, have to check the news story, but most of the results seem to be more about white lies (that is, lies to avoid hurting someone’s feelings) than about lies to defraud or deceive or do harm.

    Riddle me this: when your wife asks you, “Do I look fat in this?” how do you reply?

     
  3. Frank

    July 13, 2006 at 7:35 pm

    Gosh, I missed the main point of your comment.

    I think the percentage of pollsters that are willing to lie shows a positive correlation to who pays their fee–are the persons who hire them biased wingnu right-win liars? Then they will lie shade their results.

    Do the persons who hire them want the truth? Then they won’t lie.

     
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