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> One experiment by psychologists at the University of California, Irvine, invited pairs of strangers to play a rigged Monopoly game where a coin flip designate
by hotpotamus 4y ago
> One experiment by psychologists at the University of California, Irvine, invited pairs of strangers to play a rigged Monopoly game where a coin flip designated one player rich and one poor. The rich players received twice as much money as their opponent to begin with; as they played the game, they got to roll two dice instead of one and move around the board twice as fast as their opponent; when they passed “Go,” they collected $200 to their opponent’s $100.
> In various ways — through body language and boasting about their wealth, by smacking their pieces loudly against the playing board and making light of their opponents’ misfortune — the rich players began to act as though they deserved the good fortune that was largely a result of their lucky roll of the dice.
> At the end of the game, when researchers asked the rich players why they had won the game, not one person attributed it to luck.
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- heavenlyblue 4y agoWell if I played a game of rigged monopoly, I would say and act exactly the same way, doesn’t mean I am oblivious, it just means I am making fun of the researchers
- noirbot 4y agoOr you just assume that's part of the structure of it. Doing a study and pointing out something that obvious feels weird. "I know you asked me to play this clearly terrible game, but it's a terrible game" feels like odd feedback. Or I'd assume it was some trick and the "poor" player had weighted dice or something. It just seems odd in a game that's fairly profoundly a luck-based game even without messing up the rules, like Monopoly, that 100% of players would have that low self-awareness.
- rejectfinite 4y agoAnd you posted this why? Are you from a certain part of the world and mad? :)
- hotpotamus 4y agoI'm from a certain part of the world and I seem to lack the necessary psychology to justify why my pay is a couple times that of people who I work alongside (virtually) who are equally as competent as me.
- noirbot 4y agoWho do you need to justify it to? I'm sure your work would accept you offering to get paid multiple times less if you were prefer that. Or otherwise, do what you can to advocate for giving raises to the equally competent people on your team who are making less.
- hotpotamus 4y agoI suspect it's a basic primate tribal dynamic built into my firmware - us monkeys need to stick together and pull our weight so the tribe can survive. Of course it bumps up against some other greedy functions that are also built in.
- noirbot 4y agoI'm really suspicious of that study, even if I mostly think it's emblematic of the real-world effect it's supposedly studying. Was the difference in rules/situation communicated to the players? What exactly were they asked at the end of the game? I just find it hard to believe people would be that crass in what they know is an artificial environment where they know there are stark and obvious advantages. This feels like the Stanford Prison Experiment where the results are "too true to check".
- hotpotamus 4y agoI actually completely agree - I'd be curious to see replications. Though after a couple decades of life, I don't find it hard to believe people would be that crass.