RESULTS
Well on this page I will give my results so far and my concluions. I
will relist the questions giving the results after the question. For
yes/no questions the percentage for each answer will be given, for number
questions an average will be given.
1) Have you ever lied on a survey?
yes 100% no 0%
Rank how likely you are to lie on a survey for the following categories
from 1 (not likely at all) to 5 (almost certainly):
2) On questions about your intellegence or learning how likely are you
to lie,
a) in a way that will make you appear more intellegent/learned.
1
b) in a way that will make you appear less intellegent/learned.
2
c) in a way that will make you appear more average in intellegence/learning.
3
3) On questions in a survey about your level of athletic/physical fitness
how likely are you to lie,
a) in a way that will make you appear more athletically active/fit.
1
b) in a way that will make you appear less athletically active/fit.
2
c) in a way that will make you appear more average atheletically.
3
4) When asked a "if you are in X situation what would you do" in a survey,
how likely are you to lie,
a) in a way that will make you appear to choose the right thing according to
your understanding of societal values.
yes 0% no 100%
b) in a way that will make you appear to choose the right thing according to
your own values.
yes 0% no 100%
c) in a way that will make you appear to choose the way you think society
thinks is the realistic way to expect a person to act in the situation.
yes 0% no 100%
d) in a way that will make you appear to choose the way you think it is
realistic to expect a person to act in the situation.
yes 0% no 100%
e) in a way that will make you appear to choose what you think
society thinks the wrong thing to do is.
yes 0% no 100%
f) in a way that will make you appear to choose what you think the
wrong thing to do is.
yes 0% no 100%
g) in a way that will make you appear to choose a course of action which
you think society is uncertain about the correctness of.
yes 100% no 0%
h) in a way that will make you appear to choose a course of action about
which you are uncertain about the correctness of.
yes 0% no 100%
5) For what reasons are you more likely to lie on a survey (rank from one to
five, 1 unlikely, 5 very likely),
a) To avoid answering a question in a way which in a normal context could
cause embarressment.
3
b) To answer a question in a way which in a normal context could cause
embarressment.
3
c) To avoid answering a question in a way which could lead to criminal
charges, finicial loss or dangerous situations in a normal context.
2
d) To answer a question in a way in which could lead to criminal charges,
finicial loss, or dangerous situations in a normal context.
1
e) To answer a question in such a way that it conforms to others
expectations of you.
1
f) To answer a question so that it contradicts others expectations of you.
4
g) To answer a question in such a way that it conforms to your
expectations of yourself.
1
h) To answer a question so that it contradicts your expectations of yourself.
1
i) To answer a question in a way that you found humorous.
5
6) Are you lieing in response to this question?
yes 50% no 50%
Respondents to this section first (which includes the last question)
posted on March 25th: 1.
7) If the oppertunity is available do you check the survey results
before answering the survey?
Not Answered Yet.
8) If the answer to question 7 was yes has looking at the results caused
you to lie in response to any survey?
Not Answered Yet.
9) If the answer to question 8 was yes did you more often lie in a way
that agreed with the results so far, disagreed (bucked the trend) or
neither? [answer agreed, disagreed, or neither]
Not Answered Yet.
10) If a survey is not anonymous are you more or less likely to lie or
neither? [answer more, less or neither]
Not Answered Yet.
11) How often do you lie on surveys (answer from 1 to 5, being (almost)
never 5 being almost always)?
Not Answered Yet.
12) Would you answer a survey incorrectly to create an interesting
pattern, sequence or word in the response form?
Not Answered Yet.
13) Name your number one reason for lieing on a survey?
Not Answered Yet.
Respondents to this section added May 9th 1999: 0.
14 ) Did you lie on any questions on this survey?
yes 50% no 50%
More to follow later.
Total number of respondents as of May 9th 1999: 1.
Conclusions: Not many people visit my sight and/or like doing
e-mail surveys. People may like to respond to questions in a way that
creates a numeric sequence I will add another question to test this.
Also, people have a desire to answer questions in a logically
contradictory manor.
Go back to the survey.
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Last Updated September 27th, 2005.