The Dreaded Stairs

Can you change people's habits and attitudes? Can you take a hard task and
change people's conduct and attitudes by making a hard job seem fun?

Watch what a group of scientists did using fun or pleasure to get people to
use a long staircase with a moving escalator right next to it. At first no
one took the stairs; almost 97% of the people took the escalator. Notice how
scientists changed how people reacted to climbing a long staircase as first
choice. Now 66% more people took the stairs. This is not a joke but a
practical value in life. In the video, you can observe what the scientists
did and how they completely reversed human behavior by inserting fun.

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• Stairs

[FandangleProductions]

Fantastic Idea. Would you use these stairs? I would.

[ShedFan1]

Frikkin awesome!

[MrCheezyboy]

an easier solution would be to just take out the escalator. let those lazy asses take the stairs.

[SophiaVW]

Wow, love this!



[eluap]

Imagine how it would be to apply this concept to "the dreaded executions"!

Also, I noticed NOBODY did a slide from the top of the stairs (ya know, kinda like Little Richard).

[leopardqueen86]

@palibaacsi actually i had the escalator break at my work and they closed it because it was a "safety issue". People had to take the elevator. Needless to say it was a pain in the ass being down for 2 weeks.

[leopardqueen86]

thats a Volkswagen commercial? that would be awesome to have on stairwells!

[Toxicdude12]

*someone falls down stairs ,guy on escalator laughs

[palibaacsi]

@tony2495 “An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You would never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.” ~ Mitch Hedberg

[Fallooza]

a good way ta get people ta take the stairs.

a better way ta get people ta watch a Volkswagen commercial.