It might get a bit suspicious if you are entirely asking people about what other people think. You’d have to mix it with more conventional “dummy” questions.
Assuming, of course, that this hypothesis is true. The great thing is that it’s easily testable.
“Anything is easy if you’re not the one that has to do it.” Claiming something is easy, without giving an actual means of doing it, is a cheap rhetorical trick, one of the “dark arts”.
Give a number of test subjects a questionnaire with this question and a number of distraction questions. Then ask them to wait a while before the next stage of the experiment. While they are waiting give them an opportunity to steal something. Compare answers to behavior.
It might get a bit suspicious if you are entirely asking people about what other people think. You’d have to mix it with more conventional “dummy” questions.
Assuming, of course, that this hypothesis is true. The great thing is that it’s easily testable.
“Anything is easy if you’re not the one that has to do it.” Claiming something is easy, without giving an actual means of doing it, is a cheap rhetorical trick, one of the “dark arts”.
Give a number of test subjects a questionnaire with this question and a number of distraction questions. Then ask them to wait a while before the next stage of the experiment. While they are waiting give them an opportunity to steal something. Compare answers to behavior.