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Feb 21, 2004

"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth." --Thich Nhat Hanh

Technology and Honesty

Technology is bringing us closer to the truth, it seems. The first study to compare honesty across a range of communications media has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails. The fact that emails are automatically recorded - and can come back to haunt you - appears to be the key to the finding.