[onumgbwu] Lying is a useful life skill

Unfortunately, the ability to lie well appears to be a useful life skill. How can we measure and experimentally prove such a hypothesis?

Complicating matters is it's not just about the ability to lie, but knowing when to lie and when not to.

Certainly learning this skill is not explicitly part of the standard primary education curriculum, though the "fringe" does learn it (getting through school by lying and cheating). Should it be?

Of course, detecting whether someone is lying is also a useful life skill.