Do you lie in polls?
- Thread starter Brill
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Me too.
If I see a poll that asks a question I would rather not address, I simply don't respond at all.
For the record, I made an exception to my general policy, and answered truthfully: yes, I do lie in polls.
I once pulled into a gas station on my snowmobile a couple years back. The attendant came out and claimed I drove over his air hose with my studs. I said I don't have studs on my sled, he walked behind my snowmobile, looked at my track, and walked back. I said "see, no studs" I wasn't lieing, there were no studs.
He looks at me cold and says slowly "Everyone lies"
he might have a point, now I think of it, but he was a miserable son of a gun
He looks at me cold and says slowly "Everyone lies"
he might have a point, now I think of it, but he was a miserable son of a gun
Personally I hate polls, especially when people use them to determine how they should vote in an election. They are used by the media to sway opinion instead of giving thoughtful analysis and often are useless because of the poor way a question was framed, because of cheating or because of too low a sample.
If one sometimes answers truthfully, they can answer either "yes" or "no" to this poll.
If they never lie, or always lie, they would answer "no".
The best we can deduce is that some respondents sometimes tell the truth. Maybe.
A man walks along a path, knowing that there is a fork in the road, and down one fork is a village where everyone always tells the truth, and down the other fork is a village where everyone always lies.
Before he gets to the fork, he meets a traveler, but he does not know which village the traveler came from.
What one question does he ask if he wants to go to the village of truth tellers?
Before he gets to the fork, he meets a traveler, but he does not know which village the traveler came from.
What one question does he ask if he wants to go to the village of truth tellers?
