Posted on 11/17/2015 9:43:17 AM PST by oblomov
It’s a coin toss between China and Turkey for the title of least honest country, according to a new study.
As part of a 15-nation honesty study, researchers from the University of East Anglia had the 1,500 subjects participate in a coin flip, telling them they’d get up to $5 every time it came up heads.
The researchers theorized that if the percentage reporting heads was over 50 percent, participants were being dishonest, since heads statistically shows up only half the time.
An estimated 70 percent of Chinese participants lied — the most dishonest of the bunch, according to the study.
Bringing up the least honest rear were Japan, South Korea and India, respectively, according to the study.
Meanwhile, British participants were found to be the most honest — with only 3.4 percent fibbing — according to researchers at the English university.
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They also hadn't read or seen Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
They also hadn't read or seen Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
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