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Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11
You may split $10.00 with an anonymous stranger if he accepts your one-time offer of a split. If he accepts your one-time offer, you both get your cut. If he doesn't, neither of you get any money. What do you offer?
I keep $10.00. He gets nothing.
0 (0.0%)
I keep $9.00. He gets $1.00. 1 (10.0%)
I keep $8.00. He gets $2.00. 0 (0.0%)
I keep $7.00. He gets $3.00. 0 (0.0%)
I keep $6.00. He gets $4.00. 2 (20.0%)
I keep $5.00. He gets $5.00. 7 (70.0%)
I keep $4.00. He gets $6.00. 0 (0.0%)
I keep $3.00. He gets $7.00. 0 (0.0%)
I keep $2.00. He gets $8.00. 0 (0.0%)
I keep $1.00. He gets $9.00. 0 (0.0%)
I keep nothing. He gets $10.00. 0 (0.0%)
An anonymous stranger is told he could split $10.00 with you. If you accept his one-time offer, you both get your cut. If you don't, neither of you get any money. He offered you $2.00, and wants to keep $8.00. Do you accept?
The source of this poll comes from a study in Sway. Highly recommended.
Comments
On the other hand, if the anonymous stranger were said to have been a computer, or if the anonymous stranger could have plead his case ("I need the money, I'm starving"), then Americans were far more likely to take the (lesser amount of) free money.
Weird, eh? "The computer offers me $2.00 of the $10.00? Whatever, OK." "Some joker offered me only $2.00? Screw him! I didn't take it and I prevented him from his $8.00! Ha!"
The book goes on to explain what happens when some other cultures take the test too. It's fascinating.
Additionally, and perhaps this is my "cultural expectation" that voting is a private affair, although no such claims are either expressly or implicitly implied here, I'm rather surprised, to say the least, to see that clicking on the "view answers" link shows me how each of the poll participants voted.
I wonder, if poll participants knew in advance that their choices would be made public, would that affect their selections?
And, did you guys know that the public at large -- or at least, readers of this LJ -- would be able to see how you voted?
I see that a pair of my mutual online acquaintances who are normally in agreement about most matters would not be going home with any money were they thrown together into this scenario!
Public can read poll results depending on how the person sets up the poll. Results can be read by 1) no one but the creator, 2) friends of creator only or 3) everyone. LJ lists the choice after the poll title. In this case: "Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All"
(Open to indicates who can vote - only friends, or anyone.)
(I generally pick friends-only in my polls.)
You can get back to that page by going here:
http://www.livejournal.com/poll/?id=142
[edited for proper link]
Edited at 2009-06-30 04:52 pm (UTC)