Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2015 21:44:39 GMT
A study of deceitful behaviour on the internet has made what some might consider a surprising finding - women lie almost twice as much as men in social media posts.
The reason women lie is less surprising, if you believe in gender stereotypes: women tell porkies to make other people look good. Men do it to make themselves look good.
The Works Sydney advertising agency working with Dr Suresh Sood, a brand data scientist at the UTS Business School, sought to go deeper than the widely known truth: that without the sweaty palms and facial tics to give them away, everyone lies on the internet, whether about their age, their marital status, their resume or just the all-out envy-making marvellousness of their lives.
The researchers analysed hundreds of thousands of public posts on Facebook, Twitter, TripAdvisor and Instagram. They used a "deceit algorithm" which scores posts for truthfulness based on tell-tale words and emoticons.
For example, people are less likely to lie if they use pronouns like "I", "me" or "we" because "we subconsciously distance ourselves from what we know to be a lie." On the other hand an emoticon with a winking face or dark glasses might be a mark against credibility.
They then compared the results according to gender, location and nationality. They found that 64 per cent of lies come from women compared with 36 per cent for men. Men are the most deceitful on Facebook while women punch above their weight in posting deceitfully on Twitter, followed by Facebook and Instagram.
www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/70835416/whos-the-biggest-liar-on-social-media--him-or-her
The reason women lie is less surprising, if you believe in gender stereotypes: women tell porkies to make other people look good. Men do it to make themselves look good.
The Works Sydney advertising agency working with Dr Suresh Sood, a brand data scientist at the UTS Business School, sought to go deeper than the widely known truth: that without the sweaty palms and facial tics to give them away, everyone lies on the internet, whether about their age, their marital status, their resume or just the all-out envy-making marvellousness of their lives.
The researchers analysed hundreds of thousands of public posts on Facebook, Twitter, TripAdvisor and Instagram. They used a "deceit algorithm" which scores posts for truthfulness based on tell-tale words and emoticons.
For example, people are less likely to lie if they use pronouns like "I", "me" or "we" because "we subconsciously distance ourselves from what we know to be a lie." On the other hand an emoticon with a winking face or dark glasses might be a mark against credibility.
They then compared the results according to gender, location and nationality. They found that 64 per cent of lies come from women compared with 36 per cent for men. Men are the most deceitful on Facebook while women punch above their weight in posting deceitfully on Twitter, followed by Facebook and Instagram.
www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/70835416/whos-the-biggest-liar-on-social-media--him-or-her
Perhaps I need a list of what i can and cannot comment on. 
