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Crump: Men Lie More Than Women

You’re right, ma’am. He’s a big, fat prevaricator. Look it up yourself. Britain’s Science Museum recently commissioned a poll on gender and truthfulness and found -- hope you’re sitting down, ladies), that the average guy tells three lies a day, or 1,092 a year. (By contrast, the typical woman lies just twice a day, which works out to 728 falsehoods annually.) But there’s worse. The most likely person for a man to lie to is his mother. One-fourth of men say they’ve misled mom -- compared with 20 percent of women. "I didn’t have that much to drink" is men’s most popular fib/Steve Crump, Twin Falls Times-News. More here.

Question: Do you lie more than 3 times a day?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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