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Many people like to know if their peers are lying to them for multiple reasons. They may be snooping on them, taking their things, or lying about things they did/didn’t do. People solving crimes need to know if the suspects are lying. This will help them find out who's guilty. This experiment will help others know if they’re easily lied to. This issue can ruin relationships, such as breaking trust issues. In a more serious case, if people don’t know when others are lying during interrogation, criminals can get away with serious crimes. This topic is important to all society, almost everyone deals with others lying, sometimes on a daily basis. This experiment could impact others lives by letting them know if others are lying to them. If so, …show more content…

But, we are taught that it is wrong to lie, and that may include a punishment. This doesn't stop many of us because lying comes easily to most of us. This could result in us not getting punished for lying, which can be a hard habit to break. Most of us are very used to lying, and encountering lies.(“What is your truth quotient?”) and (“The Last Word”) In this experiment, different age group’s ability to figure out if someone is lying will be tested. Other than the youngest group, all groups will be about even. This is because we are taught about lying at a very young age, but it may take a little while to become comfortable with it. To conduct the experiment, first, twenty lies will be recorded, using different people being recorded telling two lies. The people being tested will be told that there are ten lies and ten truths.Then, people divided into different age groups will watch the recordings, and write down which statement were lies, and which statements are true. Out of those results, each person’s number of which lies they guessed right will be recorded, and averaged according to age group. The independent variable is the age of the people being tested. The dependant variable is how many statements the people guess as lies. This experiment may help people know who to ask if they’re not sure if someone else is lying to

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