• Thief Social experiment , what would you do ?
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[video=youtube;5wYsANwNy7M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wYsANwNy7M[/video] strange to see how happly poeple help if a hot girl is stealing
I remember this, gotta love how the chick is helped even while committing theft. Sucks to be a black guy though... Maybe they should have also tried a hot black woman for a compromise :D
Totally re-rolling female after this character.
The fact that the black kid is dressed like a total gangster and is behaving as such totally doesn't factor into this, right? [editline]3rd July 2013[/editline] nah, it's just GOTTA be racism
Thought this was some PR thing for the new Thief game. And it was.
[QUOTE=katbug;41298407]The fact that the black kid is dressed like a total gangster and is behaving as such totally doesn't factor into this, right? [editline]3rd July 2013[/editline] nah, it's just GOTTA be racism[/QUOTE] He and the white kid were dressed pretty similarly.
[QUOTE=Leo Leonardo;41298989]He and the white kid were dressed pretty similarly.[/QUOTE] The black guy had different attitude though. A little bit bossier I might think.
To be fair towards people there, first guy (white one) when asked "Is that your bike" responded with a smile and kind of jokingly, I would totally think that he's really just lost keyes and jokes about it. Second one, black kid, had a diffirent attitude. I might feel wrong here, though, but I'm pretty sure I'm not biased. I tend not to believe such videos in general. They're so easily skewed, like that "Americans are stupid" one from years ago.
I dunno man, I think the white kid was dressed less like a thug. The other guy was wearing baggier clothes. Also I kinda feel bad for the people stopping the black kid, they still did the right thing but this makes it look like they're racist.
I'd call the cops on the chick
When you test how a variable impacts result of the test you can't change anything but the variable. Why does he have different clothes and attitude? Also different time of the day I think? Pretty small sample too. Only twats think this is a real experiment.
[QUOTE=gudman;41299178]To be fair towards people there, first guy (white one) when asked "Is that your bike" responded with a smile and kind of jokingly, I would totally think that he's really just lost keyes and jokes about it. Second one, black kid, had a diffirent attitude. I might feel wrong here, though, but I'm pretty sure I'm not biased. I tend not to believe such videos in general. They're so easily skewed, like that "Americans are stupid" one from years ago.[/QUOTE] I definitely believe there is always a bit of discrimination. It is part of human psychology. Anything or anyone that [I]looks[/I] different to us cannot possibly be any good, right? That is how our ancestors recognized various wild animals as threats. We learn to treat people or things that look different with a bit more caution and aggression because that is how our ancestors survived. At least that is what I think. It is also accurate enough that they would help the hot girl. The human mind basically works by survival at its core. Part of survival includes making children to carry on the human race, and so our brains automatically signal out potential mates constantly, even though we do our best to ignore them. This creates an often skewed bias towards women, especially good looking ones. Couple this with the stereotypes that men are more commonly criminals and it makes sense why people would ignore or even help the girl. Let me give an example. I do not consider myself to be a racist man at all. In fact, I have two best friends who are black and even some black family members. But when I had to travel to Gary, Indiana last month, I was scared to death. When I was there, I saw two black men surround the doors of the restaurant we were in, and it made me very anxious. However, if they were two white people, I don't think I would have been so worried. It was a natural inclination in my brain, and almost everybody has it. Granted there were a lot of other factors, like how they were dressed, how the walked, and the fact that I was in fucking Gary, Indiana. Still, there is no denying that people feel more uncomfortable around members of another race, but most people learn to suppress it.
[QUOTE=entertainer89;41294528]I remember this, gotta love how the chick is helped even while committing theft. Sucks to be a black guy though... Maybe they should have also tried a hot black woman for a compromise :D[/QUOTE] Hot black woman? huh? we all know that's impossible.
Yeah Sil's got a point with the sample size and the unneeded changed variables, but at surface value it does say something, I suppose. It's certainly a social experiment I would like to see repeated properly. [QUOTE=katbug;41298407]The fact that the black kid is dressed like a total gangster and is behaving as such totally doesn't factor into this, right? [editline]3rd July 2013[/editline] nah, it's just GOTTA be racism[/QUOTE] His hat was sideways and his pants were slightly baggier. He looks more like a kid from an '80's teen sitcom than a "total gangster", but he was acting in a slightly different manner, and that very well might have changed peoples perception.
Kind of silly A real bike thief scenario would never involve: A. The person saying "yeah I'm stealing a bike!" and B. Doing it in the middle of a path, in a spot where bikes are almost never chained up anyways It just screamed an obvious guy fooling around, and thats exactly what it was I bet you the situation would be much different if the bike was chained in a "more typical" spot for a bike to be chained at and the guy stealing it didn't say "LAWL IM STEALING IT" making it seem completely non-legitimate. I'd go even as far to say as a good chunk of the people probably already saw the cameras and knew this was just some kind of thing they were filming, so why bother getting involved? On that note though, if I'm in the mood to steal a bike the best spot for me to do so would be in plain daylight and act all sarcastic. Or bring a buddy to film it to make it seem like I'm just acting.
Wow, humanity is fucking moronic. If I would've been in a hurry, I sure as hell wouldn't even notice, but If I wasn't, I'd definitely question the person, because that shit can 90% of time happen for a bad fucking reason; I also had my gf's bike stolen from near my house, so I double check the fuckers.
[QUOTE=One Ear Ninja;41299266]I'd call the cops on the chick[/QUOTE] I think the video is trying to show exactly that there's a high chance that no you wouldn't.
I'd probably just end up giving them all the benefit of the doubt and not do anything.
[QUOTE=Tinter;41301764]I'd probably just end up giving them all the benefit of the doubt and not do anything.[/QUOTE] Which is funny because that's the "correct answer", in that he really wasn't actually stealing the bike
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