Cheating is relative
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COMPARABILITY studies have been extended from incomparable jobs to the prevalence and acceptability of dishonesty. They were undertaken by Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) for the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive, which is promoting a Parliamentary Bill to enable passengers who exceed the distance for which they have paid to be charged five time the fare for the unpaid journey.
Questions to what is technically described as an interlocking quota of 997 respondents elucidated the information that cheating the bus authorities was regarded as slightly more common than keeping library books too long and slightly less common than drawing unentitled social security benefits. The practice was, however, held to be unacceptable by 72 per cen of adults, so perhaps old fashioned honesty is not entireh moribund.
With typical human cussed ness, however, those least ir support of the PTE's scheme ti recover lost revenue instead o spending whole days and ever more money in prosecutini fare-dodgers for the benefit o the Exchequer, were peopli least likely to use the buses They were members o households with two or mar cars.