Survey - Most Women Are Liars

The Manchester News reports:

According to researchers at That's Life! magazine, the National Scruples and Lies Survey of 5,000 women, average age 38, across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, found that the overwhelming majority (96%) admit to lying. Quite troubling is the fact that eight out of ten women (83%) admit to telling "big, life-changing lies" with 13% saying they do so frequently. Other findings include,

Four out of ten (42%) would lie about contraception in order to get pregnant.

Half of all women would not tell her man that the baby she was carrying was not his.

Eight of ten (78%) would regift.

Almost one-fourth (23%) would let their man sleep with another woman for $95,000 (50,000 British pounds).

Almost four in ten (38%) said they would marry purely for money.

And, disturbingly, almost one-third (31%) of all women and almost two-thirds (65%) of single women said that they would not tell a future partner if they had a sexually transmitted disease.

Almost half (46%) said they fake orgasms.

Two-thirds (68%) don't trust their partners.

One in five (19%) said they cheated on their long term partner.

Since I haven't seen the actual survey questions and also don't know how it was conducted, it's difficult to comment on specific results. However, from an overall perspective, it's interesting to note that a significant percentage of the women do not trust their partners while it seems the reverse should be true. Also noteworthy are these comments by Jo Checkley, editor of That's Life! magazine, who said,

"Modern women just can't stop lying, but they do it to stop hurting other people's feelings.

"It could be argued that these little white lies simply make the world go round a little more smoothly.

"But to tell a man a baby is his when it's not or to deliberately get pregnant when your partner doesn't want a baby is playing Russian roulette with other people's lives."

There's more at the link and, by the way, don't shoot the messenger. I didn't conduct the survey and have no loyalty towards it.