People are often helpful for cute little robots and children. But if you put a scruffy looking adult in the park and had him/her ask for help I wonder how many of those same people would have offered help.
I imagine fewer would help, but people like to be helpful. That’s why it’s so easy for people to get into gated communities or social engineer passwords out of phone support.
Buffy said,
April 16, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
People are often helpful for cute little robots and children. But if you put a scruffy looking adult in the park and had him/her ask for help I wonder how many of those same people would have offered help.
Jonathan said,
April 17, 2009 @ 7:37 am
I imagine fewer would help, but people like to be helpful. That’s why it’s so easy for people to get into gated communities or social engineer passwords out of phone support.