what percentage of humane beings would you say lie?

Question

oh lol, i meant to say "human"

Answer 1

Easy - 100 percent! and I'm not lyin!

Answer 2

Hi,

People lie on their taxes, on their online profiles, to their parents, to their children, to the boss, and, perhaps most often, to themselves. The cynic in me says 100%. After all, everyone lies at least some of the time, right?

According to Scientific American, that figure isn't far off. In 2002, a professor conducted a study to see just how often college students lie during conversation. The professor secretly videotaped students talking with strangers. "He later had the students analyze their tapes and tally the number of lies they had told. A whopping 60 percent admitted to lying at least once during 10 minutes of conversation."

In another study, also included in the Scientific Ameican article, 92% of college students admitted to lying to a current or past sexual partner. The researchers were then let to wonder "whether the remaining 8 percent were lying."

So, let's say everybody is lying -- the good news is that you're not helpless. I wrote an Ask Yahoo! a while back on identifying when someone is lying. The link is included below. And, just for kicks, I've also included a link on how to tell a good lie.

enjoy!

Mike

Answer 3

100

Answer 4

If you are talking about over an entire person's life, I would have to say 100 percent. If you are talking about a much shorter period of time, say a week, I would still think it is very high, but maybe I define lying a little strictly. I believe it is a lie when someone feigns interest in something they really do not care about, when they say what they think someone wants to hear, or when they allow someone to misunderstand something because it suits them. Then of course, there are also the overt lies . . .

Answer 5

100 %. some lies (white lies) are those that aren't told when they SHOULD be told. like if, for instance, a mother asks her child "what did you do at the dance?", she isn't going to tell her "i kissed a hot guy", and in essence this is a lie. therefore, i don't think ANYONE hasn't lied at least once in their lifetime. infants don't count unless you set a specific age limit to the percentage.

Answer 6

All of them 100%. Some people just lie more than others.

Answer 7

Deception runs like a red thread throughout all of human history. It sustains literature, from Homer's wily Odysseus to the biggest pop novels of today. Go to a movie, and odds are that the plot will revolve around deceit in some shape or form. Perhaps we find such stories so enthralling because lying pervades human life. Lying is a skill that wells up from deep within us, and we use it with abandon. As the great American observer Mark Twain wrote more than a century ago: "Everybody lies ... every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception." Deceit is fundamental to the human condition.
Research supports Twain's conviction. One good example was a study conducted in 2002 by psychologist Robert S. Feldman of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Feldman secretly videotaped students who were asked to talk with a stranger. He later had the students analyze their tapes and tally the number of lies they had told. A whopping 60 percent admitted to lying at least once during 10 minutes of conversation, and the group averaged 2.9 untruths in that time period. The transgressions ranged from intentional exaggeration to flat-out fibs. Interestingly, men and women lied with equal frequency; however, Feldman found that women were more likely to lie to make the stranger feel good, whereas men lied most often to make themselves look better.

In another study a decade earlier by David Knox and Caroline Schacht, both now at East Carolina University, 92 percent of college students confessed that they had lied to a current or previous sexual partner, which left the husband-and-wife research team wondering whether the remaining 8 percent were lying. And whereas it has long been known that men are prone to lie about the number of their sexual conquests, recent research shows that women tend to underrepresent their degree of sexual experience. When asked to fill out questionnaires on personal sexual behavior and attitudes, women wired to a dummy polygraph machine reported having had twice as many lovers as those who were not, showing that the women who were not wired were less honest. It's all too ironic that the investigators had to deceive subjects to get them to tell the truth about their lies.

These references are just a few of the many examples of lying that pepper the scientific record. And yet research on deception is almost always focused on lying in the narrowest sense-literally saying things that aren't true. But our fetish extends far beyond verbal falsification. We lie by omission and through the subtleties of spin. We engage in myriad forms of nonverbal deception, too: we use makeup, hairpieces, cosmetic surgery, clothing and other forms of adornment to disguise our true appearance, and we apply artificial fragrances to misrepresent our body odors. We cry crocodile tears, fake orgasms and flash phony "have a nice day" smiles. Out-and-out verbal lies are just a small part of the vast tapestry of human deceit.

Answer 8

99.99999999999999999999% . I am not sure that some people with retardation can, nor those that have only lived till they were just over 1 year old. I mean , how can a 3 month baby that then dies have lied?

Answer 9

I think everyone lies at some point of their life or another. It seems like its human nature to lie or exaggerate things.

Answer 10

100%

Answer 11

100%