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Originally Posted by AngryD
Looking at the other slides in that presentation, I don't see anything that really translates my point that how a query is worded can affect the statistical likelihood of certain answers.
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This I agree with. People lie, and how you word it certainly affects what lie they will tell.
For some reason, not only do most people lie about their reading, it isn’t hard to get them to admit it. I just found this:
Most Britons have lied about the books they read
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According to the survey, 65 percent of people have pretended to have read books, and of those, 42 percent singled out “1984.” Next on the list came “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy and in third place was James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”
The Bible was in fourth position, and newly elected President Barack Obama’s autobiography “Dreams from My Father” came ninth.
Aside from a list of ten titles which respondents were asked to tick or leave blank, many admitted wrongly claiming they had read other “classics” including Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Herman Melville.
Asked why they had lied about reading a book, the main reason was to impress the person they were speaking to.
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Whether people are more likely to lie about reading the eBook or a paper copy, I have no idea.