HOW HONEST ARE WE?
By Ralph Kinney Bennett, December 1995
OUR FAMOUS “wallet drop” set up the ultimate test of honesty: If we left wallets in cities around the country, how many would be returned? Well over half, it turned out—67 percent. The most honest city? Seattle, whose upstanding residents returned nine out of ten wallets. We repeated the experiment internationally, with less-impressive results: Just 47 percent of wallets were returned.