Aussies are now excelling in an unexpected way... honest salesmen! According to this articel from the SMH we are almost world champions!
I'm off to buy a used car from "Honest Joe's Fine Used Autos" on the basis of this!
AUSTRALIAN salespeople are among the most honest in the world, or at least less prone to exaggeration than most.
An international study of more than 140,000 people found US salespeople were the most "ethically challenged", possibly because the pursuit of money was their main goal in life, according to the study's authors, whereas Australians took into account the balance between family and work and a varied daily routine.
This, of course, is mere supposition, one of the study's authors, the visiting US behavioural scientist George Dudley, hastens to point out. But the hard data, he believes, is irrefutable.
Using a testing system called SPQ*Gold, the exaggeration rates of 141,000 salespeople - including more than 32,000 Australians - were measured.
The study found that the exaggeration rate of Americans was 57.2 per cent, followed by the Swedish at 53.6 per cent and Canadians at 53.3 per cent. Australian salespeople ranked seventh-best of the nine nationalities tested, at 48.5 per cent. Only New Zealanders and the British scored lower.
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