Men lie about themselves, women lie to protect their friends. Married people lie to their spouses moreless than non-married people lie to who they’re dating. When gorillas learn to communicate, they start to lie. College kids lie to their parents in one out of every five interactions. We’re all screwed, I guess, but expert Pamela Meyer talked about what can be done to navigate the world of falsehood.
Don’t worry about using these techniques on me. I tell the truth all the time. You look great, by the way.
This article appears in Oct 13-19, 2011.
Dan, you wrote: “Married people lie to their spouses more than non-married people lie to who they’re dating.”
This is not what Pamela Myer states in the video. She says that married couples lie to each other in 1 out 10 interactions. She then states “If you are single that number drops to 3.”
By stating “that number drops” is confusing one (you) may infer the percentage drops. Since the number 1 cannot drop to 3, and 10 can, she is referring to the denominator in the statistic.
That means married folks lie to each other 10% of their interactions and singles (we suppose romantic relations) lie to their mate in 33.3% of interactions.
The question is whether this was just an error on your part, or was it a lie? If your name was “George Bush” the Legacy Media, to include TW, will report it as a lie, highlight it, repeat it ad nauseum. If your name is Barack 0bama, the error or lie isn’t even reported by the Legacy Media. Or, after weeks of being shamed by numerous Websites for failure to report on it, the Legacy outlets will begrudgingly publish that 0bama made a “rare error.”
You’re right about the first part, and I’ll make a correction.
The second part, I have no idea what you’re talking about.