Trevor_Blake comments on Online vs. Personal Conversations - Less Wrong

8 Post author: katydee 28 December 2013 04:31AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 December 2013 05:04:52AM 3 points [-]

It's not that people are more willing and more able to tell the truth in person. It's that people are more willing and more able to not tell the truth when not in person. Related: people are more willing to be jerks in their cars and online in ways they would not be willing to do face to face. We fling poo from a distance more than at arm's reach.