A news story claimed that children who lie would become successful citizens. I was intrigued because although the article cited a lot of well-conducted work by Dr. Khang Lee that shows that children lie, I couldn’t find anything in that research that supported the journalist’s claim that children who lie become successful citizens. Imagine a Huxleyesque parallel universe in which the government was daft enough to believe the contents of this newspaper story and decided to implement a systematic programme of infant conditioning. Some infants were trained not to lie, others were bought up as normal and a final group was trained in the art of lying. Thirty years later, they collected data on how successful these children were as adults. They measured their salary, and two indices out of 10 (10 = as successful as it could possibly be, 0 = better luck in your next life) of how successful their family and work life was. Use MANOVA and discriminant function analysis to find out whether lying really does make you a better citizen (lying.sav).