On: Your Brain Lies to You

I've always wondered how much of that is due to poor reading comprehension and bad problem solving skills. In other words, simply that people know the answer but can't match up that knowledge with the question being asked.

Don't forget people also lie.

I always assume that 12% of people deliberately give the wrong answer to stupid questions from pollsters.

and don't forget that 32% of the statistics is made up on the spot.

86.7% of which is usually inaccurate