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toservez -> RE: Scientific American on Online Dating (2/4/2007 1:31:00 PM)
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I am sorry but I read these types of articles that have an agenda and ignore basic scientific rules when doing research and it just pisses me off.
The article goes into how people lie a little here and lie a little there and make up some conclusion that people that are online are bigger liars then people in real life. In order for this to be valid they would have also had to do some test in public to see if people lie when meeting in person.
The fact that of the small lies why there is more online is not that the sincere online lie more but they put more information on a profile then when they go to a bar. In a profile you have age, height, weight, hobbies, interests and essay sections. There is just more stuff to stretch the truth with.
Go to a bar and meet a person. Ask them their weight, they will lie. Ask them what they do for a living; it will be put in the most grandiose way possible. Ask them their age when they are significantly older then you see the years get shaved off. Ask them how they spend their free time, hear fabulous stories of cherishing their friends and family and how they barely watch TV or are on their computer. Look at a woman’s breast and guess padded or push up bra. Look at a man’s hair and wonder if they are coloring it.
A percentage of people lie/bend the truth. A percentage do not, the degree of which the sincerely looking ones that lie would be interesting to me as I cannot see how lying about something major helps a sincere person in the long run.
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