Good news for liars.

In an attempt to find anything interesting to post here, we spent hours and hours (well, maybe one hour) reading news stories and literature to find something to write about. And stumbled across an article about strategic lying. For example a group of golfers were given a putter to use while playing, they were told that it had once belonged to Professional Golfer Ben Curtis. The same club was given to other players who were not told anything special about it. The golfers who thought the club had been owned by the famous golfer putted better than the ones who thought it was 'just a normal club'. In a similar experiment Bicycle riders were pitted against a computer avatar which they were told had been recorded at their top speed on a certain course. When those same riders went up against themselves they matched the speed of the avatars. But what would have surprised them is that the avatars had been sped up by 2%.  So this would be an effective coaching tool. Obviously lying can be good right?  Ciao for now.