# How many lies do you think you tell in a day?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-lies-do-you-think-you-tell-in-a-day/418251>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 6, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-lies-do-you-think-you-tell-in-a-day/418251 "2007-09-06T15:37:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-lies-do-you-think-you-tell-in-a-day/418251/41 "2007-09-08T01:18:26Z")

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This reminds me of an old lecture I heard on torture and whether it’s sinful to lie about one’s religion in order to save one’s life. As I recall, the professor said “they dont deserve the truth.” Or maybe I’m very confused and it was “you cant handle the truth.” In any case, I almost never lie, honestly, (If I lied, I’d do it dishonestly!) No seriously, I usually go quiet or change the subject when put in a situation where a white lie is in order. As for other types of lies, almost never.

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**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-lies-do-you-think-you-tell-in-a-day/418251/42 "2007-09-08T01:24:48Z")

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I now consider this thread to be a challenge, since I keep misreading the title as “How many lies do you think you _can_ tell in a day?”

I’ll start - I think I can tell 10 lies (big lies, not “you look nice” type) on a Saturday

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-lies-do-you-think-you-tell-in-a-day/418251/43 "2007-09-08T01:32:27Z")

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I don’t lie.

Sometimes I am forced to avoid the truth, but it’s never a lie. e.g “How are you?” “Eh… Average.” It doesn’t include the detail that would be the facts, but it’s not an untruth.

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**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-lies-do-you-think-you-tell-in-a-day/418251/44 "2007-09-08T01:37:20Z")

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At least maybe 15? 10 in the very least.

I lie all the damn time.

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