18th March 2009, 12:54 AM
According to a massive number of psych tests, the old model of "risk benefit analysis" in executives to determine if they should cheat is wrong. Oh sure the cheating is done with the incentive in mind, but the value of the incentive and the chances of getting caught don't affect their decision. The truth is they cheat only as far as they can still view themselves as moral.
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Interesting stuff... Ayn Rand was a moron.
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Interesting stuff... Ayn Rand was a moron.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)