Hmm... the real circumstances of social experiments are tough to evaluate. I'd have to be there to believe it. I'm skeptical... people might just have thought:

Hmm... the real circumstances of social experiments are tough to evaluate. I'd have to be there to believe it. I'm skeptical... people might just have thought: hey cool, a social experiment, let's play with the situation and enjoy myself. In real life telling somebody, that might know your friends or classmates, you play in a popular band will not do good for your reputation. I don't think people outright lie... they omit, expand, exaggerate, twist, etc., but not outright lie. There's probably a socially accepted ratio of how much you're allowed to bend it, with 1.0 being totally honest and 0.0 outright lying. I'd say you can get away with 0.5 often (try at your own risk). Bell curve?