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Freakonomic Author: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Publisher: Harpertorch Year of Publishing:2006 Pages: 207 Apart from schoolteachers, sumo wrestlers would cheat. They cheated to maintain rankings that affect every slice of their life. They would make deals to help one another. The one who has reached the ranking may intentionally lose the one who has one win short of the ranking's standard. Next time when the one fell behind the ranking, he would be help in the same way. However, when a swarm of journalists and TV cameras was around the wrestlers in competitions, the win percentages of ones who haven't been ranked come to surprising outcomes--- they dropped from 80 percent to 50 percent dramatically. In comparison with sumo wrestlers and teachers, the authors took a bagel vendor as an example. Every morning, the bagel vendor delivered some bagels and cash basket to a company's snack room and returned before lunch to pick up the money. This way is called "honor-system commerce scheme" which test the honesty of people. Indeed, some people stole from him, but the vast majority do not even without surveillance. These examples raised a question: could anyone refuse their temptation to do something they want if they knew none was witnessing? In my opinion, the answer is yes. Due to the sense of guilty, I'm afraid of disobeying my conscience. I confessed that sometimes I cheated for some reasons. But under most circumstances, I would choose to do things that I considered to be correct. The common between teachers and wrestlers is that they cheated when no one was watching over them. I believe that most of people did cheat in the same case. Nonetheless, I wholeheartedly believe in mankind's morality, just like the honest majority who paid for bagels. 49777020黃郁雰