I dunno. I think that the average person assumes that the he or she is more honest than the average person. Which means that he or she assumes that the average person is less honest than the average person actually is.
I mean, I can think of a half a dozen times when change or bills fell out of my pockets, and people called my attention to it, and helped me pick it up. Fairly common occurance.
Also, while we're on the subject, it's been my experience that a teenager wearing hip-hop styles is about 90% likely to give up his or her seat on the train to a pregnant woman, elderly person, or person with a cane, and about 60% for someone who just has more packages than he or she does.
It looks to me like most people are honest, decent, polite, and helpful.
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Date: 2004-07-02 10:17 pm (UTC)I mean, I can think of a half a dozen times when change or bills fell out of my pockets, and people called my attention to it, and helped me pick it up. Fairly common occurance.
Also, while we're on the subject, it's been my experience that a teenager wearing hip-hop styles is about 90% likely to give up his or her seat on the train to a pregnant woman, elderly person, or person with a cane, and about 60% for someone who just has more packages than he or she does.
It looks to me like most people are honest, decent, polite, and helpful.