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.