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by Resident_Geek 5188 days ago
Unfortunately, the paper (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...) doesn't say whether the lower mean for the people in the low time pressure group is because they lied less frequently, or because they lied with lower numbers.

I wish they'd included graphs of the actual distributions of reported numbers. That would have been more useful than just the mean, standard deviation, and chi-square results.

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Good point. Obviously this becomes implausible once the mean reaches 3.5 (as it apparently did in the n=74 single die followup, with 3.4).

And yes, the data should be available for download.