system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Can statisticians control for people lying on surveys?

Reddit users have been telling me that everyone lies on online surveys (presumably because they don't like the results).

Can statistical methods detect and control for this?
gpt
Yes. It's easier to do in a large (read: lots of questions) assessment. But we ask the same question a few different ways, and we have metrics that check that and we get a "consistency score" 

Low scores indicate that people either aren't reading the questions or they are forgetting how they answered similar questions (I.e., they're lying).