In Dubner and Levitt’s, “What the Bagel Man Saw,” they explain the story of Paul F, the Bagel Man, and his experiment to test honesty. Paul’s job after quitting the corporate world was to drop of bagels to different companies. His experiment began as he trying to determine just how honest different white-collar companies were. In the morning, Paul would drop off bagels and a cash box to different companies and then come back in the afternoon and collect the money. This honesty experiment revolved around how many bagels were taken versus how many were paid for. Paul F. concluded that, on a macro level, eighty-nine percent of people are honest. In this conclusion he added that city people are less honest than those in the rural areas and that
