When Scientists Are *Too* Honest

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bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

MetalDog

That's outstanding and I hope it's all true!
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Martok

Hahahaha!  I like the last one best. 

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JasonPratt

True story of the best $50 I ever spent in college.

The project in one of my senior communication classes required teams to cold-call people in the Knoxville phone book to poll them about various things.

I lost the various coin tosses, so got to be the one to do this.

In 30 minutes one afternoon I made it through 3 calls, getting answers in only one, because I utterly hated the idea of calling people and bothering them, much less to ask if they'd answer poll questions none of us cared about.

Dorm-mate down the hall walked into the room to ask if he could borrow something from Bro, and said, "Man, you okay? You literally look like you're going to have a stroke. I'm not kidding, I've never seen anyone 'ashen' before..."

I told him the problem.

He said, "Really? Huh. I wouldn't have any problem doing that at all."

I said, "I would gladly pay you $50 cash to do it!"

"Really?! No problem!"

"Okay, but I need 50 papers filled out, and the phone numbers have to be real so that if the teacher or his aides do a spot check..."

"Seriously not a problem."

I promptly went to the ATM, made a withdrawal, came back and handed him the cash. No questions asked. Paid up front.

Two hours later, he was back, with all the sheets filled out. Easiest $50 he'd ever made.

We were the only team that had a full set of data to make our report on. No other team even got close; I think maybe one or two other teams got almost half the necessary number.

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