04-06-2016, 02:17 PM
(04-06-2016, 01:59 PM)Donovan Wrote: I never lied. I presented a hypothetical situation, never once stating whether or not it was real or whether I was one of the players. Ramsey made an assumption based on a similarity in names, but I never once made the claim I was one or the other.
I may have allowed some of you to make assumptions which I didn't clarify until the conversation was over. Sally is correct that her response was not gender-sympathetic, and that was my doing.
Call it a jedi mind trick if you like. I needed unbiased data. It required a blind study.
Try again. No jedi mind trick here. Did you not say..."sorry for the DESEPTION, ladies?
deception /dɪˈsɛpʃən/ noun
plural deceptions
Learner's definition of DECEPTION
1
[noncount] : the act of making someone believe something that is not true : the act of deceiving someone
She accuses the company of willful deception in its advertising.
The article describes the government's use of deception [=deceit] to gain public support for the program.
She practiced deception on her unsuspecting clients. [=she deceived them]
2
[count] : an act or statement intended to make people believe something that is not true
His many deceptions did not become known until years after he died.
It was a misunderstanding on her part, not a deliberate deception on his (part). [=he didn't try to deceive her or lie to her]
a clever deception [=trick]
I don't care if it was a hypothetical question or not. You deliberately deceived everyone into thinking something that was totally opposite.
We don't know you well enough to know if you're a habitual lying sack of shit, but you lied with this scenario. How do we know if you changed it around to make yourself look good.
You lied...own it.