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The fine bastards at Cambridge bring us this bit o fucking science:
As dishonesty and profanity are both considered deviant they are often viewed as evidence of low moral standards. On the other hand, profanity can be positively associated with honesty. It is often used to express unfiltered feelings and sincerity. The researchers cite the example of President-elect Donald Trump who used swear words in some of his speeches while campaigning in last year's US election and was considered, by some, to be more genuine than his rivals.
Dr David Stillwell, a lecturer in Big Data Analytics at the University of Cambridge, and a co-author on the paper, says: "The relationship between profanity and dishonesty is a tricky one. Swearing is often inappropriate but it can also be evidence that someone is telling you their honest opinion. Just as they aren't filtering their language to be more palatable, they're also not filtering their views. "
The international team of researchers set out to gauge people's views about this sort of language in a series of questionnaires which included interactions with social media users.
In the first questionnaire 276 participants were asked to list their most commonly used and favourite swear words. They were also asked to rate their reasons for using these words and then took part in a lie test to determine whether they were being truthful or simply responding in the way they thought was socially acceptable. Those who wrote down a higher number of curse words were less likely to be lying.
Guess that makes me the most honest motherfucker on the site, eh?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mcgrew on Wednesday January 18 2017, @07:28PM
It notes that the vulgar asshole who is the only person I've ever heard of that is a worse liar than my ex-wife is honest?
That's the thing with statistics: not everyone is at median. Just because most honest people swear doesn't mean that vulgarians like our Liar Elect are honest.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:01PM
A lot of folks apparently disagree with you.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:29PM
Once upon a time, a lot of people would have disagreed with you if you had told them there is no Zeus sitting on Mount Olympus. Just saying.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:33PM
Which is interesting but being anti-Zeus would have been an extremely poor choice back then. Much like voting for the most corrupt politician ever to run for President was.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday January 19 2017, @06:01PM
People may, but the facts don't. Trump got more Pinnochios and pants-on-fires than any other candidate in recent history. He's sworn he didn't say something that you heard him say himself on TV a week earlier.
People didn't vote for him because they thought he was honest, they voted for him despite the fact that he's a lying piece of shit. He reminds me of the bully I beat the hell out of in 7th grade.
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