The experiment seems a little flawed. At the very least I would have expected a third run with a chitchat sentence first (my working hypothesis would be that ch

The experiment seems a little flawed. At the very least I would have expected a third run with a chitchat sentence first (my working hypothesis would be that chitchat sentence and apology for rain would be equally trustworthy, both more than straight up asking). There's quite a difference between directly asking to use someone's phone and introducing yourself first. The copier queue gets mentioned at the end but the article reads more like "apologize for something that you cannot control=trust" while I'd suspect it's really "talk about something else=trust"