Posted on 07/13/2015 1:47:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Via the IJR, a timewaster while we wait for John Kerry to secure peace in our time in Vienna, the terms of which are reportedly shaping up exactly as you’d expect.
This clip is interesting (assuming the interactions are genuine, which I think they are) but not for the reason intended. You’re supposed to conclude, I guess, that Americans are abject morons in assessing the value of precious metals and/or that Americans are big fat fatties in preferring a quick hit of chocolate to something inedible that’s worth much more. I don’t think it proves either. Many people are morons, no doubt, when it comes to gauging the value of gold or silver, but even a dummy would guess that a bar of silver is worth more than the two dollars it costs to buy the Hershey bar — probably substantially more, which makes it hard to believe they’d prefer the snack even if they were hungry. The behavior you’re seeing is probably more an artifact of them being offered a too-good-to-be-true deal with a camera stuck in their face. If that were me, I might take the Hershey bar too: Obviously there’s a catch if you choose the silver — either it’s fake or the guy won’t really let you walk away with it — so why not just take the chocolate and get out of there? What you’re seeing here is a byproduct of suspicion, not stupidity.
Exit question: You’re not really going to eat chocolate that a suspicious stranger handed you, are you?
People Choose Free Candy Bar over Free 10 oz Silver Bar (Worth $150) in Experiment
The stupidity levels are frightening.
He'd always give them both a careful look over before choosing the nickle.
Finally, his Mom would ask him if he knew that a dime was worth two nickles. "I sure do," he replied, "but if I chose the dime, word would get around fast and people wouldn't stop to offer me the choice ever again."
Maybe a lot of people just really really really really like chocolate. I mean who needs money when you can get free candy? LOL!
Notice the t-shirt Dice was wearing?
Nah, they’re stupid
Aren’t they?
Yeah, I did
Location, location, location.
If I was starving in the wilderness I’d rather have
the chocolate.
If I was starving in the city I’d take the silver.
Drawing any conclusion at all from stupid social experiments like this leads to stupidity. Some people took the chocolate, and others the silver. There is no “therefore.”
What you said.
Circumstance has it’s place.
No, Dice is honest. He would have shown the person who chose the silver bar. He didn't, ergo, not one of the people he made the offer to, made the choice of the silver bar. This is the result of our education system not teaching relative value. Ignorance on parade.
What was precious was the woman who almost took the silver bar because she doubted the authenticity of the chocolate!
Stupid is as stupid does.
I’ll take 3 of the bars, please. The silver ones.
Like I said, and these people vote.
Hershey bar..
it tastes good, and my silver sits and gathers dust..
in the apocalypse, what good is silver???
you cannot eat it, it will not heat your home, all you can do is melt it down and use it for bullets...
think about it
Well, he did offer to take the silver bar into the coin shop and verify it was real. Silver, sell it, buy chocolate...although I’d keep the silver for the time being.
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