From Emma:
Trust...
This lab was very intriguing to me. I decided to go about my experiment of truth by having a friend film me drop items, such as money, glasses and an itunes gift card, and see the reaction of those around me. We started with the money, and on the first two tries no one even noticed the money! But third times a charm, a woman noticed right away and quickly caught my attention to give the money back. We repeated this experiment multiple times and it seemed everyone, except one, was very trustworthy. The one woman who took the chance of stealing my money was speechless as my friend began screaming "hey HEY thats her money" while filming the reaction. We were still feeling pretty good about the amount of trustworthiness in the Walmart community, that is until the manager came over. He made it very clear to us that no filming was allowed in walmart or in the parking lot as I suggested. We were forced to delete all evidence of our trust experiment :( and were not allowed to film him telling us we could not film (I wanted proof we had completed our project). He told us the reason we could not film was because it was suspicious and we could be filming to look at the security, even after we explained our school project! Later in Walmart we were asked to leave, apparently sitting in Walmart instead of outside is also suspicious! In conclusion although all but one person was trustworthy, the Walmart staff was not trusting in its customers, not even the innocent teenage girls!!
January 20, 2009 6:23 PM
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that's a really good idea on whether people can be trusted. You must've had a lot of confidence in other people in order to do this lab, with dropping money and things like that. That's really crazy that the manager yelled at you! oh well, now you guys have a fun story to tell- haha
ReplyDelete-Regan Fairfield (11:20 class)
good job on this lab! The outcome is not what I expected, I would have thought that more people could not be trusted. But i am glad my theory is not true! And its really funny how the manager yelled at you! :P
ReplyDeleteps, bizzerbip, is elizabeth lloyd, 11:20 class! oops!
ReplyDeleteI think that this incident effected the project for the better because not everyone has the same amount of trust. You guys could have been trusting in the store but whether or not someone else is trusting is another issue. There will always be contraversy.
ReplyDelete-KELSEY