Cultural Prophylactics: Honesty & Integrity
Cultural Prophylactics was a performance project conducted in 2009. Please see the introduction, demographics and priorities, and feel free to enjoy this brief overview.
On average, respondents marked that 4.35% of their answers were untrue, highly questionable, or unverifiable, with most choosing to underscore or add notes to the effect that nothing is verifiable. Only 18% indicated that more than 50% of their responses were for various reasons not fully truthful or verifiable.
In addition to the acknowledged difficulty of verifying all data, everywhere, respondents expressed further reasons for a lack of factual data in the following percentages:
- 30% because of the art context of the survey
- 18% chose the answers that seemed the funniest
- 15% because the test was likely to be processed by machines
- 15% marked the answer “I don’t see how the truth here could benefit me”
- 5% felt that their pen didn’t work properly
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