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Sat 4 Jan, 2003 07:04 am
WOMEN are Better LIARS and CHEATERS than MEN!
This was the headline in a local Irish paper recently, which was purportedly based on a 2 year clinical trial that involved 500 women and 500 men between the ages of 21-41.
They were all subjected to similar scenarios and dilemmas, and asked standard questions based on these events.
So what do you think?
Are you restricting your question to Irish women and Irish men?
Was the poll taken by Irish men?
Sounds interesting, but I would need a lot more info before I could comment. Do you have a link?
It's not that women are better liars and cheats.
It's just that men are so inept.
I think women my be more sneaky, and plan ahead before lying and cheating, which may be viewed as "better."
Men just do, usually without much thought, then face the consequences when and if they come.
The article stated in it's conclusion, "Men tend to leave more evidence of their infidelity lying around, whereas women are meticulous in 'sanctifying the scene'."
Bib- Now we are getting somewhere, in terms of information, when you mentioned infidelity.
Who were these men and women?
How did the researcher get his sampling?
What were the scenarios about? Was it only about infidelity, or did it include other subjects?
Were the folks in the study given a forced choice, or allowed to offer subjective answers?
How did the researchers quantify "better liars" or "better cheaters".
In evaluating a research study, one must know all these parameters, and be clear on the meaning of terms. If this is not done, the results are meaningless, and just serve to reinforce stereotypes.
I agree with Phoenix. We need to know the experimetal parameters, before we can come to any significant conclusions.
Like I said, women have a tendency to plan ahead.
If it really interests people, could they not do a quick google search on the subject? Bib has already said the specific article is not online.
I don't need any more parameters than what's at hand -- I'm always caught out. No great indiscretions involved, mind you -- just minor venialities. Cookie crumbs on the kitchen counter, beery breath acquired at the local hardware store, unexpected emails from Playboy.com, etc., etc. -- Mrs. Jane Marple Debacle detects 'em all. Forever nosing out my spoor, she leaves nary a track of her own.
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over 62000 hits at google on 'are women better liars' - a number of the recent links were to a study done in Edinburgh, released in June of 2002.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=are+women+better+liars&btnG=Google+Search
Quote:Scientists say women are better liars than men
Scientists claim women are better liars than men.
Researchers at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh have made the conclusion after finding women are more fluent speakers.
The Daily Telegraph says men are almost twice as likely to pause or hesitate when they speak.
Researchers say when under the pressure of lying, the pauses increase in length and men have a tendency to fill them with 'ums' and 'ahs's.
Robin Lickley of the department of speech and language doesn't know whether nature or nurture explains the difference.
He added: "All the males had more pauses than females. Men tend to be more hesitant which includes repeating single words to cover up gaps. When it comes to lying, if you are having to create something, you would want to pause longer because you would want to be careful about what you are going to say.
"The longer it takes you to formulate what you are going to say the more likely you are to pause, so the more likely you are going to use an um or an ah to fill the gap."
Story filed: 08:33 Monday 3rd June 2002
hmmm...the plot thickens (was there a pause in that statement? Darn it!)
Of course, being better at lying doesn't mean women lie more. That's gonna be (or probably already was) another study.
We're just smoother talkers.
Unless you've met the smoothest talker of them all.
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