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>People in the program get $500 each month on a debit card, which helps researchers track their spending. But 40% of the money has been withdrawn as cash, makin
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
>People in the program get $500 each month on a debit card, which helps researchers track their spending. But 40% of the money has been withdrawn as cash, making it harder for researchers to know how it was used. They fill in the gaps by asking people how they spent it.
If they know they're being studied they're gonna tell the researchers they spend the money on "good" things. Wanting to please people who are helping you out is very much human nature.
- fortran77 7y agoJust like if you ask people what they watch on TV, they'll tell you PBS not "Keeping Up With The Kardashians".
- vortico 7y ago40% withdrawn as cash is a ton. Did the funders inform their test subjects that they can't/shouldn't do this? Virtually all expenses listed in this article accept debit cards, so there's no reason they should be withdrawing this much cash. If the purpose of this experiment is to show that people don't just buy vices like gambling and drugs, I'd say the experiment failed or was inconclusive. I would go further to say that test subjects should report proof of all expenses for this experiment, because they could just offload the "good" stuff onto the debit card which leaves more room for "bad" stuff to be paid with your existing income, which isn't reported.