Based on the excerpt, the conclusion that “personal mood seems to affect honesty” is best supported by which of the following statements?
Relaxing summer and fall holidays generally cause payment rates to drop.
Stressful fall and winter holidays generally cause payment rates to drop.
Relaxing summer and fall holidays generally cause theft rates to increase. Stressful fall and winter holidays generally cause theft rates to remain steady.
Answers
The bagel data also reflect how much personal mood seems to affect honesty. Weather, for instance, is a major factor. Unseasonably pleasant weather inspires people to pay at a higher rate. Unseasonably cold weather, meanwhile, makes people cheat prolifically; so do heavy rain and wind. Worst are the holidays. The week of Christmas produces a 2 percent drop in payment rates—again, a 15 percent increase in theft, an effect on the same magnitude, in reverse, as that of 9/11. Thanksgiving is nearly as bad; the week of Valentine’s Day is also lousy, as is the week straddling April 15. There are, however, a few good holidays: the weeks that include the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and Columbus Day. The difference in the two sets of holidays? The low-cheating holidays represent little more than an extra day off from work. The high-cheating holidays are fraught with miscellaneous anxieties and the high expectations of loved ones.Stressful fall and winter holidays generally cause payment rates to drop. From the above text, during these holidays like Xmas people are trying to live up to high expectations so tend to overextend themselves financially so find it harder to pay these bills and they can become mesmerized by the plethora of consumer goods too.
Answer:
The conclusion concerning mood and honesty is stylish supported by the statement that follows:
Option (ii) Stressful fall and downtime leaves generally beget payment rates to drop.
Explanation:
The extract this question refers to can be set up online. Since it's too long, I'll not add it then. It belongs to the book" Freakonomics," by Levitt and Dubner.
In the extract, we're told about a man who leaves a handbasket with bagels at different companies for workers to buy. He doesn't stay there to vend the bagels; he simply trusts people's honesty when it comes to plutocrat.
It turns out that people pay advanced rates when they're in a good mood. still, after stressful leaves or when the rainfall isn't that good, people tend to pay lower rates, and indeed the number of bagels stolen( not paid for) increases. In other words, mood and honesty are connected.
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