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From the Ted Talk by Dan Ariely: Our buggy moral code
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Now, how would you test a personal fdgue factor? Initially we said, what can we do to shrink the fudge factor? So, we got people to the lab, and we said, "We have two tsaks for you tdaoy." First, we asked half the people to recall either 10 books they read in high school, or to recall The Ten Commandments, and then we tempted them with cheating. trnus out the people who tried to recall The Ten Commandments — and in our sample nobody could recall all of The Ten Commandments — but those people who tried to recall The Ten Commandments, given the opportunity to cheat, did not cheat at all. It wasn't that the more rliiouges people — the plpeoe who remembered more of the Commandments — cheated less, and the less religious people — the people who couldn't remember almost any ctnnmmmeados — cheated more. The moment people thought about trying to recall The Ten Commandments, they stopped citaehng. In fact, even when we gave self-declared atheists the task of swearing on the Bible and we give them a chance to cheat, they don't cheat at all. Now, Ten Commandments is something that is hard to bring into the education system, so we said, "Why don't we get people to sign the honor code?" So, we got people to sign, "I understand that this srhot survey falls under the MIT Honor Code." Then they shredded it. No cheating whatsoever. And this is particularly iensrnettig, because MIT doesn't have an hnoor code. (lehgutar)
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Now, how would you test a personal _____ factor? Initially we said, what can we do to shrink the fudge factor? So, we got people to the lab, and we said, "We have two _____ for you _____." First, we asked half the people to recall either 10 books they read in high school, or to recall The Ten Commandments, and then we tempted them with cheating. _____ out the people who tried to recall The Ten Commandments — and in our sample nobody could recall all of The Ten Commandments — but those people who tried to recall The Ten Commandments, given the opportunity to cheat, did not cheat at all. It wasn't that the more _________ people — the ______ who remembered more of the Commandments — cheated less, and the less religious people — the people who couldn't remember almost any ____________ — cheated more. The moment people thought about trying to recall The Ten Commandments, they stopped ________. In fact, even when we gave self-declared atheists the task of swearing on the Bible and we give them a chance to cheat, they don't cheat at all. Now, Ten Commandments is something that is hard to bring into the education system, so we said, "Why don't we get people to sign the honor code?" So, we got people to sign, "I understand that this _____ survey falls under the MIT Honor Code." Then they shredded it. No cheating whatsoever. And this is particularly ___________, because MIT doesn't have an _____ code. (________)
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Original Text
Now, how would you test a personal fudge factor? Initially we said, what can we do to shrink the fudge factor? So, we got people to the lab, and we said, "We have two tasks for you today." First, we asked half the people to recall either 10 books they read in high school, or to recall The Ten Commandments, and then we tempted them with cheating. Turns out the people who tried to recall The Ten Commandments — and in our sample nobody could recall all of The Ten Commandments — but those people who tried to recall The Ten Commandments, given the opportunity to cheat, did not cheat at all. It wasn't that the more religious people — the people who remembered more of the Commandments — cheated less, and the less religious people — the people who couldn't remember almost any Commandments — cheated more. The moment people thought about trying to recall The Ten Commandments, they stopped cheating. In fact, even when we gave self-declared atheists the task of swearing on the Bible and we give them a chance to cheat, they don't cheat at all. Now, Ten Commandments is something that is hard to bring into the education system, so we said, "Why don't we get people to sign the honor code?" So, we got people to sign, "I understand that this short survey falls under the MIT Honor Code." Then they shredded it. No cheating whatsoever. And this is particularly interesting, because MIT doesn't have an honor code. (Laughter)
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