I agonized over this question for a career. In 25 years as a U.S. Government investigator doing security clearance investigations, one of the main things I looked for was honesty - and honesty seemed to vary by profession.

I rarely ran across a dishonest engineer, and they and other scientists seemed to be honest even when there was no need for honesty. Cops, on the other hand, seemed to have a serious tendency to stretch the truth to the limit, and so did military officers (but not enlisted personnel) - I think maybe both military and police officers are expected to have such an unrealistically high level of honesty that they cannot possibly meet expectations. Academics (like this dean) are expected to be honest, and they generally seemed to be. Astronauts were generally every bit as good as one might expect them to be.

Political functionaries were a mixed bag - some were slippery, and others took great pride in being bluntly honest. Journalists were a mixed bag, too, in much the same way.

Interestingly, the people who seemed to be most concerned about truth, were often the ones most likely to be untruthful.

-Joe-