Women Score Better In Honesty Test!

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If honesty is the best policy, certainly then it would be women who would come out shining in an honesty level comparison, while men meander way far down in the list. No, no, we are not the feminist kinds, but, this just happens to be the result of a latest survey.

The study on the deceitful behaviour in both men and women compared their views on dishonesty, which as per the results definitely vary. Released at the British Festival at Surrey University, the research found that women are more likely than men to categorise some behaviour as dishonest, although men are more likely than women to convict someone of a dishonest crime in a court of law.

Some 15,000 participants took part in the research with the hypothesis that dishonesty as a state of mind is based legally upon the "ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people".

"The law is based on an assumption that the majority in society hold the same views about what conduct is dishonest ," the Independent quoted Stefan Fafinski, a criminal lawyer at Brunel University, who carried out the study, as saying.

"Our research challenges that assumption. We found a great deal of disagreement, even upon very basic situations," Dr Fafinski added.

The researchers observed that 31 per cent of women thought it dishonest for someone to keep money found in the street, yet of them only 8 per cent would convict someone of theft for doing that if they were prosecuted.

While about two thirds of the participants said that they have taken stationery home from work, but still 82 per cent also thought it as a dishonest act.

The researchers further revealed that they found big discrepancies between online crime and physical crime. As some 98 per cent of women considered it dishonest for a man to conduct an online romance behind his wife's back, while only 74 per cent of men thought it as dishonest.

On the men women deceit level survey, Dr Emily Finch, a criminologist at Brunel University said, "Women are more likely to categorise a person's conduct as dishonest but less likely to convict that person of the offense. Female participants are more likely to excuse conduct by reference to the circumstances or character of the person involved."

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