{"id":7729,"date":"2012-08-22T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7729"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T22:12:30","slug":"honesty-california-cities-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/honesty-california-cities-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Honesty Test &#8211; Oakland is Most Honest, Venice Beach Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/honestea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Honesty was tested in Honest Tea&#8217;s National Social Experiment, which ranked the honesty of cities recently. <strong><\/strong>\u00a0 From August 8 to August 19, 2012, Honest Tea set up more than 50 unmanned pop-up kiosks in over 30 cities across the country, with each location stocked full of Honest Tea and Honest Ade. Signage at the stands offered bottled beverages for $1 each with payment based on the honor system, going into a clear box on-site. The outcomes were recorded using a customized digital tracking application by undercover observers nearby. Data collected for the National Honesty Index included geographic locations such as business districts, ball parks and beaches; observable characteristics like gender and hair color were tabulated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California has the most honest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/see-oakland\/\">(Oakland<\/a>) and dishonest (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/something-to-be-proud-of-californians-arent-the-fattest-in-the-nation\/\">Venice<\/a>) people<\/li>\n<li>93% of participants in America were honest<\/li>\n<li>Oakland and Salt Lake City were both 100% honest<\/li>\n<li>Women are 95% honest while men are 91% honest<\/li>\n<li>Redheads are more honest than blondes and brunettes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>California City Honesty Index- Percent of Beverage Takers Who Gave $1 Per Drink<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oakland 100%<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco 97%<\/li>\n<li>Palo Alto 93%\u00a0 (people wearing suits\u00a0 were 100% honest)<\/li>\n<li>Anaheim 90%<\/li>\n<li>Hollywood 88%<\/li>\n<li>San Diego 87%<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles 79%<\/li>\n<li>Venice Beach\u00a0 76% &#8211; 2nd least honest location in U.S., just under Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PREVIOUS: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/paying-homage-to-california-oranges\/\">Paying Homage to California Oranges<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEXT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/cal-weekend-proves-that-food-is-fun\/\">Food is Fun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honesty was tested in Honest Tea&#8217;s National Social Experiment, which ranked the honesty of cities recently. \u00a0 From August 8 to August 19, 2012, Honest Tea set up more than 50 unmanned pop-up kiosks in over 30 cities across the country, with each location stocked full of Honest Tea and Honest Ade. Signage at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}