The prevalence of lying in America: Three studies of self-reported lies
Serota, Levine and Boster, Human Communication Research 36(1), 2010, 2-25. Study 1: online survey of about 1,000 US adults, mean 1.65 lies in 24 hours, 59.9 per cent none, 5.3 per cent of adults told half of lies reported, top 1 per cent told 22.7 per cent. Study 2: reanalysis of earlier diary and experiment data with the same skew. Study 3: 225 students, mean 2.34, median 1, heaviest 13 (5.8 per cent) told 22.4 per cent. Older respondents reported fewer lies.
Serota, Levine and Boster, Human Communication Research 36(1), 2010, 2-25. Study 1: online survey of about 1,000 US adults, mean 1.65 lies in 24 hours, 59.9 per cent none, 5.3 per cent of adults told half of lies reported, top 1 per cent told 22.7 per cent. Study 2: reanalysis of earlier diary and experiment data with the same skew. Study 3: 225 students, mean 2.34, median 1, heaviest 13 (5.8 per cent) told 22.4 per cent. Older respondents reported fewer lies.
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Serota, K. B., Levine, T. R., & Boster, F. J. (2010). The prevalence of lying in America: Three studies of self-reported lies. Human Communication Research, 36(1), 2-25. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.2009.01366.x https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2958.2009.01366.x