Foul-mouthed people are also the most honest, study finds
2017 Jan 19, 8:38am 1,600 views 10 comments
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APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says
Does DIE! FUCKING! DIE! qualify as honest expression?
It could be more honest.
DIE! FUCKING! DIE! Republican & Democratic voters.
"Those fond of effing and blinding, by contrast, are likely to be the most honest in any given group, according to academics at the University of Cambridge."
And smartest.
Slimefuck D & R party loving ASSHOLE,DICK SUCKING & SWALLOWING voters are half literate.
They can read but too FUCKING dumb to WRITE-IN.
Please excuse my GOD DAMNED language.
justme
2017 Jan 19, 10:02am
Very flawed study. The evaluation of honesty was based on self-assessment in the form of some thinly veiled questions that were supposed to measure honesty indirectly.
And look at the questions or statements that were to measure honesty: "“all my habits are goodâ€. What is the real -life cost of saying NO to that? None whatsoever. Honesty that counts is measure by real life choices that have real life consequences, not some fake-ass survey.
In short, the study sucks.
Perhaps we have a very low bull_ _ _ _ threshold, which is coincident with the hippocampus and the amygdala being very active with brain fingerprinting and likely ethics and reasoning.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3311838/
Eventually we might be able to type democrats/gamers/Highrho_felons/unethical individuals. This new body of research may also tie into genetics, which is a growing field in term of genetic mapping, genome sequencing, etc.
However, many of the Lawyers may have correlation in their brain fingerprints which may stem from their training to argue all the time regardless of the situational ethics, and their training to support people who they know are in the wrong.
but new research suggests that people who refrain from swearing are often the most devious and dishonest.
also people who never lose their temper, I would add.
States such as New Jersey, where a lot of people use bad language, were found to rank highly on the State Integrity Inde
Pretty sure there is no shortage of fraud in NJ. If it is on level of Utah on per-capita basis, that I do not know.
States such as New Jersey, where a lot of people use bad language,
How you doin', huh? You eva driven out in Joisey? You'd be taukin dat way too einstein.......
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/18/foul-mouthed-people-also-honest-study-finds/
Temperate language has traditionally been considered a social virtue, but new research suggests that people who refrain from swearing are often the most devious and dishonest.
Those fond of effing and blinding, by contrast, are likely to be the most honest in any given group, according to academics at the University of Cambridge.
The study describes how 276 participants were asked to list their favourite swear words in order to gauge how fond they were of turning the air blue.
They were then given a survey asking them to agree or disagree with statements such as "I never lie†and "all my habits are good†to assess their propensity for dishonesty.
The researchers found that the most honest in the group were also the biggest swearers.
Dr David Stillwell, one of the study's authors, said the correlation may stem from the constraints imposed by social convention.
"If you're trying to follow the social norms rather than saying what you think, you are saying what people want to hear,†he said.
"In that respect you are not being very honest.
"We did not look at extreme dishonesty such as fraud, so from that experiment it's an open question as to whether there would be a link.â€
However, he said the findings corroborate research in the US which links states with a high level of swearing to low levels of honesty-related crime.
States such as New Jersey, where a lot of people use bad language, were found to rank highly on the State Integrity Index, whereas Utah and other places where bad language is a relative rarity saw higher levels of fraud or similar offences.
"At least people who swear are telling you what they really think,†said Dr Stillwell.
"Although if people said what they think all the time, would that really be a good thing?â€
The researchers also examined the Facebook postings of 75,000 people, where a similar correlation was observed.
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