Via John Galt, I think this correlation is pretty weak and the studies sample size is tiny, but apparently if you swear you’re more honest.
Via John Galt, I think this correlation is pretty weak and the studies sample size is tiny, but apparently if you swear you’re more honest.
What a crock of shit!
They correlation of honesty about their feelings and use of language is not based on logic. This is fake News.
It says nothing about the character of a person, their moral code or their appetite for restraint, although their words do expose who they are. Which would be the correlation they are drawing from this study.
You may know exactly what they are thinking but does that automatically mean that you would put your finances, family and possessions in their care?
The true test of a man/woman is his/her character. What they do in the open should be no different than what they do in the privacy of their personal domain. It is not necessarily true that a person who holds his tongue is less trustworthy than the foul air-painters.
Surveys once again manipulating and changing society, but not on the incline. Should be a lot of licences now issued to just let the verbal fertilizer spread unabated.
Fckuing-A duuuude ! What a crock.
Just to establish my bonafides, I can f#&king swear better than 95% of the G#d dam people in this world. I learned as a teenager and perfected my skill in the Army. I can use f#&K as a noun, verb, adjective and adverb…. frequently all in one sentence.
With that now FIRMLY established, I say that, contrary to this “study”, excessive swearing reflects 2 things:
1. An emotionally immature mind
2. A limited ability to express oneself in whatever language they’re speaking/a very limited vocabulary.
And all you F#&kers reading this sh*t better f#&ken believe it or I’ll put my f#&ken foot so far up your f#&king azz that you’ll be f#&king choking on it. And I mean that “honestly” because you can believe me when I tell you that I never lie.
The onward march of the social sciences continues…… stay tuned for the next surprising revelation about humans.
It’s probably true. People like me who swear all the time can’t be @ssed to lie. We just don’t care enough to bother with it.
This is the usual nonsense put out by social “scientists” — what they measure is not the thing they say they have measured, and what it may mean is probably not the thing they say it means.
If anyone has a link to the actualk journal article, please post it.
Frankly, We Do Give a Damn
The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty
Gilad Feldman, Huiwen Lian, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell
First Published January 15, 2017
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1948550616681055
Abstract
There are two conflicting perspectives regarding the relationship between profanity and dishonesty. These two forms of norm-violating behavior share common causes and are often considered to be positively related. On the other hand, however, profanity is often used to express one’s genuine feelings and could therefore be negatively related to dishonesty. In three studies, we explored the relationship between profanity and honesty. We examined profanity and honesty first with profanity behavior and lying on a scale in the lab (Study 1; N = 276), then with a linguistic analysis of real-life social interactions on Facebook (Study 2; N = 73,789), and finally with profanity and integrity indexes for the aggregate level of U.S. states (Study 3; N = 50 states). We found a consistent positive relationship between profanity and honesty; profanity was associated with less lying and deception at the individual level and with higher integrity at the society level.
Swear words are culturally different and generally reflect what that culture finds most uncomfortable talking about. For English speaking people swear words are often associated with bodily functions and usually sexual ones. For French speaking people the swear words are most often anti-Catholic or otherwise religious in nature.
@John Galt:
I’m going to double down on my previous comment and say to you plainly that this is a pile of bullcrap.
Let me point out that 73,000 facebook users WRITE things in a way that might not actually reflect what the might SAY if they were face to face. And context (topic) matters as well.
And who determined which of the 276 people in the first study were more honest or more dishonest …. it was apparently based on answers to other questions of self evaluation. That’s circular logic.
Then there is the whole other meaningless study called the “profanity and integrity indexes for the aggregate level of U.S. states”. Really?? I wonder who pulled off that study for publication.
And finally, isn’t it just as plausible that many people have picked up this increased profanity and swearing because they’re sheep and they think it’s the “in” thing to do, “everybody I know does it”, and besides, it’s easy to do.
I really enjoyed Isaac Azimov as a writer (sci fic and otherwise). He was very much into this idea (at least at one point in his writings) that you could predict mass social behavior and it could be reduced to mathematical certainties (i.e., statistics), that societies could be moved, manipulated, shaped and if you just understood these equations you could predict the future. That hasn’t yet happened but if you want to see practical applications of mass social manipulation, just watch television commercials. It’s not science, it’s an art.
kristians are naïve as hell, and lie to themselves about a fictitious god, and they never swear. Sure doe make one wonder:-))
Why are you addressing your comments to me personally? Still shooting at the messenger when you get confused by something you don’t like? Stop grandstanding like an asswhole.
@John Galt: My apologies if I have unintentionally offended you. You put the topic forward and you seemed to be defending it in later comments. But you are correct, I didn’t need to direct my comment to you.
Thanks. We can all maintain a modicum of friendship if we keep our comments objective not personal, especially on contentious issues. Like many people I post items of interest to further discussion on the subject. It would be foolish and mistaken to believe that posting something equals endorsement.