-How will you know or catagorize the extent of someone's "religious-ness?" How will you know if someone is merely religious or if they have a faith that is an active and daily part of their life, there is a difference. And that difference will effect a person's decision to lie or not.
-How do you define lie? That is a pretty subjective term in that what one person considers a lie another person may not. What about "white lies?" Is withholding information a lie? What about lying to protect someone?
We do also think that it might be nice if the surveys wern't completely anonymous. If you could somehow code the questionares so you could maintain the roommate pairs (by numbering or letting pairs of papers) you could learn a lot about your subjects. This would be beneficial if you asked the questions "do you lie to your roommate?" and "do you think your rooommate lies to you?" Because if Roommate 'A' says "yes, I lie to my roomate," but Roommate 'a' says "no, I don't think my roommate lies to me"-- these results would be very telling in that you could see that Roommate 'a' had been successfully deceived.
We think results like this would be beneficial to your conclusions.
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