Definition of a "fair split" varies across cultures

[Valmy]

Sorry Tim your experiences of that culture are wrong.

The whole authority thing sounds like a con-job to avoid responsibility sort of like how over here we embrace the victim-hood thing.

[jimmy olsen]

Sorry Tim your experiences of that culture are wrong.

The whole authority thing sounds like a con-job to avoid responsibility sort of like how over here we embrace the victim-hood thing.

Not sure what you mean by that. The boss will simply ignore objections/criticism in most cases, and outright not tolerate them in others. You can object and have your career damaged or maybe even lose your job or you carry on and hope the boss doesn't tank the company with his idiocy.

[Admiral Yi]

It rings true to me.  One of my greatest frustrations living and working in Korea was the inability of people to formulate an answer to the question "why."

[PDH]

It rings true to me.  One of my greatest frustrations living and working in Korea was the inability of people to formulate an answer to the question "why."

So they are the same as freshmen in the US?

[Admiral Yi]

he he

[jimmy olsen]

It rings true to me.  One of my greatest frustrations living and working in Korea was the inability of people to formulate an answer to the question "why."

Woo! I declare victory via appeal to ethnic authority!

[Josquius]

There is some truth in that though it is taken to racist extremes. People really do have far more of a hive mind mentality in asia.

[grumbler]

There is some truth in that though it is taken to racist extremes. People really do have far more of a hive mind mentality in asia.

Agree that the use of the term "hive mentality" in reference to real groups of people is racist.

[Martinus]

Still on the first page, but wouldn't the results be different if the amount offered had the similar relative value to the Machiguenga as $100 has to Americans?

To an American, $100 is not an entirely insignificant amount, but it is definitely not a large amount, so most people would be willing to risk less than $50 for the sake of moral grandstanding. I am pretty sure if the amount to be split was $1,000,000, most Americans would also accept an amount that is significantly below the 50/50 split (e.g. I don't think many people who were offered $100,000, would be willing to "punish" the one to keep $900,000).

Edit: Ok, read further to disregard this comment.

[Warspite]

Do these studies also test the same people over a period of time to see whether their responses to identical situations  are consistent? I know researchers think hard about their methodology, but it would be funny if these sorts of groundbreaking studies actually only reveal that 48% of those tested were in a bad mood on a given day.

[Martinus]

Kinda blows away the thinking that some single way of doing things can be applied globally over all of humanity. Marketing people know this, and market products differently in different cultures. Regrettably, political activists will probably always cling to the fiction that their idea of how to do things can be successfully applied to every society in the same manner.

I disagree. If anything, the problem with modern political activists (especially on the left) is their cultural relativism and the abandonment of the great narratives of the 19th and the 20th century (so something exactly opposite to what you say they are "clinging" to). What this study does is that it offers a reality check, showing that we need to work harder in order to impose our values on different cultures. The history of the British Empire shows that it can be done, however.

[Eddie Teach]

The Germano-Celtic Man's Burden.

[grumbler]

Do these studies also test the same people over a period of time to see whether their responses to identical situations  are consistent? I know researchers think hard about their methodology, but it would be funny if these sorts of groundbreaking studies actually only reveal that 48% of those tested were in a bad mood on a given day.

So long as the 48% figure is consistent, then it wouldn't matter.  The members of the 48% who were cranky on day one would feel uncranky on day 2, but would be replaced by newly cranky individuals. 

[Eddie Teach]

Do these studies also test the same people over a period of time to see whether their responses to identical situations  are consistent? I know researchers think hard about their methodology, but it would be funny if these sorts of groundbreaking studies actually only reveal that 48% of those tested were in a bad mood on a given day.

So long as the 48% figure is consistent, then it wouldn't matter.  The members of the 48% who were cranky on day one would feel uncranky on day 2, but would be replaced by newly cranky individuals. 

However, the crankiness could be caused in part by the methodology of the test.

[grumbler]

However, the crankiness could be caused in part by the methodology of the test.

Not just the methodology - all testing changes the testees to some extent.