RSA Animate - Superfreakonomics
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Uploaded by theRSAorg on Mar 10, 2010
Are we really as altruistic as we might like to think? In the RSA's new animation series, we put into pictures Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's case for re-evaluating the evidence.
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@Gozza0000 Most psychological experiments have a payment for participating in the experiment. So the money is considered by the subject as something earned, but yes, it would improve the validity if follow up experiments if it used participant's job wages.
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@olascoaga29 visual minutes
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hey guys what type of drawing is this? how is it call?
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Lol he wrote swag on the thiefs bag
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@benjaamin8 If there was no monetary system then nothing would ever develop, everything would decline and there'd be havoc
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I'd be that outlier. Haha, science doesn't even understand me!
The camera this time though, so. annoying.
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@ddpsp self-fulfilling prophecy.
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@Gozza0000 Stole my comment you did. If you entered the room and the $10 was the ten you already had in your wallet, you'd not be so keen to give it away. You can't tell someone "this is yours" and have them believe it in that situation, because they know deep down that it isn't theirs.
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A very good point.
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They've missed something VERY critical here.
The reason people are altruistic in List's experiments in the first place is because they are GIVEN the money for nothing.
I guarantee that as soon as the lab rats had to EARN that $10, they would have not been willing to give any money away.
As for his final results in which, when the opportunity was there, people could steal up to $10; Again, they assume that the person in the other room is GIVEN the $10 for you to steal off them, not earned.
Gozza0000 4 months ago 21
@ddpsp Which is why the monetary system has to go if we want to evolve further than our own nuclear demise!
benjaamin8 2 months ago 5