Weekend May 25, 2012
A Duke Professor constructs an interesting experiment. The idea is to learn when people we lie, what prompts or encourages such behavior.
His conclusion is that a great deal of people lie just a little, but in total that leads to significant costs.
Take a read, pretty interesting. The presence of an obvious cheater causes many to cheat. This was the core of the Dallas Indpendent School District purchasing scandal. Everyone was doing it, why not?
Meanwhile the John Edwards trial goes on, no question he lied, but the trial is about the mis use of campaign money, not his obvious infidelity.
Professor Elam 
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