Do people in some countries generally cheat more often than people in other countries? Two international teams of researchers think not.
Are people in some countries more generally dishonest than people in other countries? Two international teams of researchers have examined this question, and both teams have come to similar conclusions.: Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, USA, and the UK. They recruited 90 university students in each country to play a coin-flipping game.
If 90 students flip a coin, the laws of probability dictate that about half of the coins will land on white and receive a prize. If almost all of the students report a prize-winning result, then we have evidence of a high level of cheating in that group. In each country, approximately 220 students at a university and approximately 200 local residents at coffee shops agreed to play a game on an iPad that involved rolling a virtual die 20 times. Before rolling the die, participants were instructed to mentally choose a side of the die, either the top side or the bottom.
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