While a lot of snark is tossed at millennials — who, to be fair, throw their fair share back at boomers — a new survey reveals something interesting about the younger age group.
Apparently, they lie. A lot.
According to a survey of more than 1,300 people that was commissioned by Online casino PlayStar, 13% of people born between 1981 and 1996 copped to lying at least once a day.
By comparison, just 2% of baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — said they lie on the daily. Just 5% of Gen X (born between 1965 and 1980) and Gen Z (born between 1997 and 2021) did so.
Thirty-three percent of millennials say they have lied on their resumes and 40% have lied to their employers to “avoid embarrassment in the workplace,” according to the poll.
Telling fibs wasn’t limited to in-person exchanges, apparently. The subjects, from New York, New Jersey, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Tennessee, also lied online and via social media.
That said, social media seems to bring out the worst in people when it comes to honesty: Nearly a quarter of millennials and more than 20% of the youngest in the survey, Gen Z, say they’ve lied on their socials to impress people.
Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.