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How generous are you? (Part I)

How much do you allocate to the other person?


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Every single thing we do in life is because of self-interest. Every single thing.

Yepp, even when we share the world with others.
Imagine you have the provisions for one calendar year and are locked in an isolated place with all modern conceniences but with no human contact. How would you feel? :)
 
Yepp, even when we share the world with others.
Imagine you have the provisions for one calendar year and are locked in an isolated place with all modern conceniences but with no human contact. How would you feel? :)
I'd be in seventh heaven! But...only if I can have my pets with me.
 
I'd be in seventh heaven! But...only if I can have my pets with me.

I guess you can. But no Internet and DP, if someone didn't understand. :2razz:
Are you going to be OK again?
 
You are given a large sum of money (more than a million dollars) and are asked to split it between yourself and another person you don't know. You are sitting at a table with this person when the decision is made. Let's say that this other person is from the same country you are, but you don't know anything else about them.

You can take what you want and give them the remainder. You can even decide to give them nothing. The other person has no input into your decision.

How much money do you allocate to the other person?

EDIT: If you know what this experiment is, please don't ruin it for others.
Do I get to talk with them and/or ask them questions to better assess them?
 
You are given a large sum of money (more than a million dollars) and are asked to split it between yourself and another person you don't know. You are sitting at a table with this person when the decision is made. Let's say that this other person is from the same country you are, but you don't know anything else about them.

You can take what you want and give them the remainder. You can even decide to give them nothing. The other person has no input into your decision.

How much money do you allocate to the other person?

EDIT: If you know what this experiment is, please don't ruin it for others.

I will only give to entities I can identify.
 
I Googled the whole survey, and I have to say the options are poorly worded. Most of them aren't reasons why I would or would do or how I feel about any of the questions.

The question that you posted for this thread is a fine example. I know nothing about the person I'm asked to give money to. I'm not about to give a dime to any wealth person, nore a drug addict or pedophile, etc, and I'm quite generous with my money in real life. It's a very poor measure of anything.
 
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Money isn't free, it had to come from somewhere. Since I have no idea where the money came from I want no part of it.

But that response may be the result of a poorly explained experiment.


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Where did the money come from? That would effect my answer.
Too funny! I hadn't read the other posts before I responded.
 
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OK. OK. Where's part II? Just reminded me my brother-in-law named his dog par two because he wasn't big enough to be a par three. Just a little funny.
 
I'm sorry. You left me a way around. I keep it all. When we are done I would speak to the person at the table that didn't have money given to him; however, he lost the 'flip of the coin' but essentially he is no different than anyone else, i.e. his sitting at the table meant nothing to the people giving the money away. However, I may feel he is due something. My POV is a bit unusual. One reason is that we we have more than enough and are managing our money to insure that we'er going to have enough to support others, e.g. our first grandchild born 12/31/2011.
 
Don't know about all this altruistic nonsense... if someone voted to give some (< 50%) to the other person it just shows they aren't a selfish, self centered ****. If they chose to give 50% or > away, it means they genuinely see themselves reflected as and on the same level as the unknown other person. If they gave 100% away, they're Harri Krishna's or Tibetan Monks who have a disdain for materialistic items and have better things to do than count their sheckles.
 
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