Keywords: Deception, Lying, Prevalence, Professionals
Introduction:
How deceptive are the professionals in some of the highest level jobs in our society? This paper examines levels of deception among lawyers, doctors, and business people. This research stems from Professional Deception: Examining Perceptions of Deception in Law, Medicine, and Business, by Klein et. al. (2015), which examined the perceived levels of deception among the general population of these three professions. To add to this research, we focused on actual levels of deception, and determined if general population perceptions were similar.
Prior studies have shown that all three of these professions utilize some sort of deception to varying degrees. Business professionals …show more content…
We ran the Facebook campaign with the hopes of reaching more professionals. Unfortunately, although there was a large reach for the campaign, which ran on a budget of $250.00 and had 420 engagements, less than 5 people filled it out, as shown below. Although, it was a challenge to determine which people had filed out the survey due to the Facebook Ad Campaign. Perhaps if we were to do this again, we can ask if the subjects were filling it out because they had been prompted by an Ad.
This leads us to believe that, Facebook Ad Campaigns are not effective in terms of collecting data from a specific elite population. If we are hoping to do that, as an extension of our project, then it may be worth exploring other online platforms, where answering surveys by members is a regular occurrence. After discussing this with Professor Hancock, we recognized that there were different online societies for Medical Professionals that could allow us to collect more data. The campaigns did not prove to be extremely effective in collecting results for our …show more content…
We have made some modifications to question c) depending on the profession. The survey for the Business Field and Medical Field are the same. These questions, as stated above are going to be answered on a 9 point scale based on the likelihood they would engage in those behaviors.
Survey to send out to those related to the Law Field
1. Gender
2. Age
3. Area of Study or Profession
I. Business II. Law III. Medical
4. Are you:
I. A practising professional
II. In progress of receiving your degree
Please reflect on your behavioral tendencies and honestly state how likely you are to engage in the following behaviors:
a. Be in the express line with too many groceries.
b. Board a plane before your group number is called.
c. Exaggerate your billing hours
d. Tell their spouse that they have completed a task that hasn’t been started.
e. Take home the pen from a restaurant.
f. Lie to an insurance company about the value of goods that were damaged.
g. Buy a garment, wear it, and return it.
h. Lie to your partner about the number of sex partners you had in the past.
Survey to send out to those related to the Medical Field
1. Gender
2.
Introduction:
How deceptive are the professionals in some of the highest level jobs in our society? This paper examines levels of deception among lawyers, doctors, and business people. This research stems from Professional Deception: Examining Perceptions of Deception in Law, Medicine, and Business, by Klein et. al. (2015), which examined the perceived levels of deception among the general population of these three professions. To add to this research, we focused on actual levels of deception, and determined if general population perceptions were similar.
Prior studies have shown that all three of these professions utilize some sort of deception to varying degrees. Business professionals …show more content…
We ran the Facebook campaign with the hopes of reaching more professionals. Unfortunately, although there was a large reach for the campaign, which ran on a budget of $250.00 and had 420 engagements, less than 5 people filled it out, as shown below. Although, it was a challenge to determine which people had filed out the survey due to the Facebook Ad Campaign. Perhaps if we were to do this again, we can ask if the subjects were filling it out because they had been prompted by an Ad.
This leads us to believe that, Facebook Ad Campaigns are not effective in terms of collecting data from a specific elite population. If we are hoping to do that, as an extension of our project, then it may be worth exploring other online platforms, where answering surveys by members is a regular occurrence. After discussing this with Professor Hancock, we recognized that there were different online societies for Medical Professionals that could allow us to collect more data. The campaigns did not prove to be extremely effective in collecting results for our …show more content…
We have made some modifications to question c) depending on the profession. The survey for the Business Field and Medical Field are the same. These questions, as stated above are going to be answered on a 9 point scale based on the likelihood they would engage in those behaviors.
Survey to send out to those related to the Law Field
1. Gender
2. Age
3. Area of Study or Profession
I. Business II. Law III. Medical
4. Are you:
I. A practising professional
II. In progress of receiving your degree
Please reflect on your behavioral tendencies and honestly state how likely you are to engage in the following behaviors:
a. Be in the express line with too many groceries.
b. Board a plane before your group number is called.
c. Exaggerate your billing hours
d. Tell their spouse that they have completed a task that hasn’t been started.
e. Take home the pen from a restaurant.
f. Lie to an insurance company about the value of goods that were damaged.
g. Buy a garment, wear it, and return it.
h. Lie to your partner about the number of sex partners you had in the past.
Survey to send out to those related to the Medical Field
1. Gender
2.