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Wrong. Cultural effects are very real, and they are exist independently of material incentives.
by i_am_nomad 8y ago
Wrong. Cultural effects are very real, and they are exist independently of material incentives.
- javajosh 8y agoIndeed. If this weren't true, then there would be no basis to shape the culture, since culture wouldn't have a shape. Two groups can be compared on important values like "honesty" independent of group size. The comparison will look like overlapping normal distributions, usually with substantial overlap. Chinese students were famous for cheating at my school, especially in the pre-med biology track. I witnessed it myself. I also witnessed brilliant, hard-working non-cheating Chinese students in math and physics. Yeah, there's something cultural going on but it's a lot more complicated than "the Chinese are cheaters".