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Mapping The (Dis)Honesty Of The World
Reader's Digest wanted to know how honest world cities are, so it “lost” 192 wallets in 16 cities - that’s 12 wallets in each city - to see how many would be returned. Each wallet contained $50 equivalent of local currency, as well as a name, phone number, family photo, coupons, and business cards. The results, as IBTimes' Lisa Mahapatra illustrates are perhaps surprising. The US ranked well (with 8/12 wallets returned) but the troubled regions of Europe (Spain and Portugal) came a dismal last with only 2 and 1 wallets returned respectively.
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In Juarez, Mexico, they cut off a piece of the wallet and send it to you with a ransom note.
All 12 would have been returned intact in Tokyo.
Yep.. pity they did nt test that city which would have certainly stand out on the bright side...
WOULD BE RATHER CRUCIAL TO KNOW IF THE 50$ WERE STILL IN !!!...
:-) Zurich ranked like Rio de Janeiro and Bucharest...
What a Cr@ppy study. Where was Asia? Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Philippines, etc....
They may have handed the wallets in but taken the money or the cards or both.
I wonder what would happer if you dropped wallets at a Bilderberg meeting?
The person who took the one missing wallet in Helsinki, Finland, was probably a foreigner. I'm only being slightly xenophobic here.
This is bullshit. Drop the wallet in the hood, go ahead. Reggie's not going to return it. hell nah.
Over.
A dozen occurances is too small a sampling size to make any conclusions. This "experiment" is another example of the bloated and irrelevant MSM. It proved nothing more than the writer being willing to rip off his company for a worldwide vacation.
True, the sampling size is ridiculously small and turns this experiment into "infotainment".
Still, I bet a lot more wallets get returned when they are dropped in working class neighborhoods vs. illegal immigrant hellholes.
Finland result--believable
Mumbai-- Unbelievable. I would have expected it to be around 5-6.
Maybe the test needs to be done with bigger amount and more number of times and averaged out
Yeah, I'm seeing a "sample size" problem here. I like the idea of the experiment, but there are a lot of variables that can't easily be adequately controlled for as the experiment was constructed.
Zurich was a surprise. Everything else looked about right. It really depends on where they dropped the wallets. If they did it in a nicer section of Berlin I bet a lot more wallets would of been returned. But if they dropped it in seedy sections then the number will be much lower.
If they dropped it on Wall Street, the finder would track the owner down, slap them in the face, and tell them next time there had better be at least $50k in the wallet unless they want their pension fund destroyed.
Cool experiment.
I'm a little bit disappointed they didn't test out the idea in Mexico City. Latin America seems to have been neglected in general.
I WAS GOING THRU A TURNSTYLE IN NYC SUBWAY
THE GUY IN FRONT OF ME COLLAPSED ..... DEAD
The first thing the guy after me did was take the guy's awllet and run off
fucker beat me to it.... i go the suit and shoes though
They should have added Tokyo, Japan, and Toronto, Canada.