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No, it doesn't. I remember an anecdote of a bagel delivery man that calculated the percent of people (donations to the bagel plate were anonymous) that screwed
by Ygg2 14y ago
No, it doesn't. I remember an anecdote of a bagel delivery man that calculated the percent of people (donations to the bagel plate were anonymous) that screwed him up was only 15%.
So majority people are actually nice even when anonymous. And penny arcade is a comic site, not a dispenser of truth.
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- mpyne 14y agoI should have mentioned in my comment what the comic did: It is anonymity + audience which is correlated, not anonymity alone. Although your anecdote is just as anecdoty as the comic author's anecdote...
- qohen 14y agoI remember an anecdote of a bagel delivery man that calculated I expect it was about Paul Feldman -- it was a very interesting story -- the guy was an MIT-trained economist who, in frustration at getting nowhere at a certain point in his career, gave it up to deliver bagels, etc. to companies every day and he collected data on people's behavior when it came to leaving payments. The following NY Times Magazine article is by the Freakonomics duo about him (the story made it into the Freakonomics book): http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/what-the-bagel-man-saw.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/what-the-bagel-ma... PDF of the same article from one of the authors (i.e. a non-nytimes.com link): http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/WhatTheBagelManSaw.pdf http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/WhatTheBagelMa...