[Blindtlk] AT the Intersection of Money Identification andHuman behavior

Sat Mar 14 20:10:26 UTC 2015

I am sure I have never had it happen to me either.  I read about a study a 
number of years ago in which a number of blind people in New York City took 
trips with taxi drivers and deliberately gave them wrong amounts of money 
and told them the amounts were less than they actually were.  It turned out 
most of the cab drivers were honest and corrected the passengers involved 
and gave them back the correct change.  I think there was only one who was 
questionable, but the article mentioned that New York Cabbies are as honest 
as their day is long.  So I don't think it happens much, but apparently it 
does happen sometimes.

Mark Tardif
Nuclear arms will not hold you.
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From: Arielle Silverman via blindtlk
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 7:11 PM
To: Hyde, David W. (ESC) ; Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] AT the Intersection of Money Identification andHuman 
behavior

Hi all. I think it would be interesting to do a study and see how
often blind people have been deliberately short-changed by cashiers,
bartenders etc. It hasn't happened to me yet as far as I know, and I
haven't heard many stories of it happening to other blind people. It's
the sort of thing that gets a lot of hype but I guess I'm a little
skeptical of how much of a risk it actually is.
Dave, How did you figure out when you were short-changed? Do you have
enough vision to read bills, or did you use a bill reader?
Arielle

On 3/5/15, Hyde, David W. (ESC) via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I had it happen once. I gave a bar tender a $20, and got bills back. I
> carried the bills and drinks to the table. I sorted the bills, and found I
> was ten short. When I went back, I gave him another $20, and got change
> back. I took the bills out of sight, and pulled a $1 out of my pocket, and
> asked him if that was the $10. When he said yes, I told him what I had 
> done,
> and gave him back both sets of bills. I told him he got away with it,
> almost. I told him I was sure he inadvertently made the same mistake 
> twice.
> If he ever made it again, I would be discussing his continued employment
> with his boss. He was always exactly correct after that, and I never
> mentioned to him again.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carly
> Mihalakis via blindtlk
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 3:13 PM
> To: Bob Hachey; Blind Talk Mailing List; blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] AT the Intersection of Money Identification and
> Human behavior
>
> Afternoon, Bobb and everyone,,
>
> Mostly I've found, generally, that people are really cool, not taking
> advantage of the blind. I think that's like a cardinal sin, on par with
> child mollestation and the like.
>   Car
> Maybe show people that you are trusting people won't take advantage of 
> you,
> unless they're real shits! Yes, you might encounter the world's shits, but
> by and large, people want to help us. 07:49 AM 3/5/2015, Bob Hachey via
> blindtlk wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Below my name, please find a link to a truly fascinating YouTube video.
>>Note that the blind people and clerks depicted here are actors and that
>>this is an experiment in human behavior. How will bystanders react when
>>a blind person is shortchanged because he or she cannot identify US
>>currency? While it is nice that we can get free money identifiers from
>>the BEP, how likely are we to use them when we are handed change and
>>people are waiting behind us in line?
>>
>>Bob Hachey
>>
>>
>>
>>  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myyyqH4j634>
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myyyqH4j634
>>
>>
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