Weather, for instance, is a major factor. The bagel data also reflect how much personal mood seems to affect honesty.
Read the following excerpt from Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics. Compared with Feldman's argument, the tale of "The Ring of Gyges" is best described as a But Paul Feldman sides with Socrates and Adam Smith-for he knows the answer, at least 87 percent of the time, is yes.
Glaucon's story posed a moral question: could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon seemed to think the answer was no. With no one able to monitor his behavior, Gyges proceeded to do woeful things-seduce the queen, murder the king, and so on. When Gyges put on the ring, he found that it made him invisible. He told of a shepherd named Gyges who stumbled upon a secret cavern with a corpse inside that wore a ring. Glaucon, like Feldman's economist friends, disagreed. A student named Glaucon offered the story in response to a lesson by Socrates-who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement. There is a tale, "The Ring of Gyges," that Feldman sometimes tells his economist friends. Which of the following best summarizes the main idea of this paragraph? This distinction probably has less to do with the admittedly small amount of money involved (Feldman's bagels cost one dollar each, cream cheese included) than with the context of the "crime." The same office worker who fails to pay for his bagel might also help himself to a long slurp of soda while filling a glass in a self-serve restaurant, but he is very unlikely to leave the restaurant without paying. From Feldman's perspective, an office worker who eats a bagel without paying is committing a crime the office worker probably doesn't think so. This is an intriguing statistic: the same people who routinely steal more than 10 percent of his bagels almost never stoop to stealing his money box-a tribute to the nuanced social calculus of theft. Each year he drops off about seven thousand boxes and loses, on average, just one to theft. In the end, he resorted to making small plywood boxes with a slot cut into the top. Then he tried a coffee can with a money slot in its plastic lid, which also proved too tempting. In the beginning, Feldman left behind an open basket for the cash, but too often the money vanished.
Based on the excerpt, the conclusion that "personal mood seems to affect honesty" is best supported by which of the following statements? The high-cheating holidays are fraught with miscellaneous anxieties and the high expectations of loved ones. The difference in the two sets of holidays? The low-cheating holidays represent little more than an extra day off from work. There are, however, a few good holidays: the weeks that include the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Columbus Day. Thanksgiving is nearly as bad the week of Valentine's Day is also lousy, as is the week straddling April 15. The week of Christmas produces a 2 percent drop in payment rates-again, a 15 percent increase in theft, an effect on the same magnitude, in reverse, as that of 9/11. Unseasonably cold weather, meanwhile, makes people cheat prolifically so do heavy rain and wind. Unseasonably pleasant weather inspires people to pay at a higher rate.
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