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If I'm reading their experiment correctly, they're only targeting employees behind the counter in public buildings. I'd be curious to know whether that influenc
by DharmaPolice 3y ago
If I'm reading their experiment correctly, they're only targeting employees behind the counter in public buildings. I'd be curious to know whether that influences the results at all.
Clearly there's a cultural element to dishonesty but I'd guess that poorer less equal countries are going to do worse vs richer more equal ones.
edit: Also, I'm not sure if keeping the money is strictly speaking "dishonest". Yeah it's a bad thing but if your philosophy is finders keepers then, is that dishonest?
- prometheus76 3y agoThey said in their study that even when they accounted for GDP, the effect remained.
- DharmaPolice 3y agoI was thinking of Gini coefficient.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoAre there any ancient moral traditions that espouse 'finders keepers losers weepers'?
- davetannenbaum 3y agoOne of the study authors here. On targeting front-desk employees, we did this both to allow relatively portable cross-country comparisons and for reasons of internal validity (e.g., if we placed wallets on the ground, then can participants "select" into the study which compromises our ability to draw causal inferences). On your last point about whether it's dishonest to hold onto a wallet. The question is about the treatment effect --- all things equal, is it more dishonest to hold onto a wallet with money vs no money? We polled nationally representative samples in the US, UK, and Poland and in all three countries most people thought so.
- dshacker 3y agoAmazing study, was really interesting to read. How do you get to do this studies? How does someone get into social science like this? How did you pay for all the tickets for all the cities?