Task 2: I was intrigued by a news story claiming that children who lie would become successful citizens (http://bit.ly/ammQNT). I was particularly intrigued because although the article cited a lot of wellconducted work by Dr Khang Lee that shows that children lie, I couldn’t find anything at all in that well-conducted work that supported the journalist’s claim that children who lie become successful citizens.

However, let’s imagine a Huxleyesque parallel universe in which the government is stupid enough to believe the contents of this newspaper story and decides 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 of how successful they were in their family and work life, on a 0–10 scale (10 = as successful as could possibly be, 0 = better luck in your next life). The data are in lying.dat.

Use MANOVA and DFA to find out whether, in this completely fabricated parallel universe, lying really does make you a better citizen.