Makes me think there may be hope for us after all.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, October 17th, 2011 12:05pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter eric3579.

*kids

Adding video to channels (Kids) - requested by dingens.

And later, who teaches them greed?

Everyone!
>> ^notarobot:

And later, who teaches them greed?

The kid with the richer parents should get the sandwich. The lazy one should get no entitlements. After the better child finishes, the crumbs should be given as (tax deductible) charity to the lesser child. Anything less would be socialism.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by dystopianfuturetoday.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

The kid with the richer parents should get the sandwich. The lazy one should get no entitlements. After the better child finishes, the crumbs should be given as (tax deductible) charity to the lesser child. Anything less would be socialism.


You forgot that the lazy child without the sandwich should politely ask if he/she can do the dishes and in return receive a crust from the sandwich. However, the dishes have already been done by the other hungry kids and the crust is gone. Too bad there just aren't enough dishes to do for everyone! Oh well.

*science
*money

Adding video to channels (Money, Science) - requested by NetRunner.

limited resources (aka Robinson Crusoe).>> ^notarobot:

And later, who teaches them greed?

Have I been too long on the sift when I have already played out in my head how @blankfist would turn this video and its comments into an argument for libertarianism?

I would be curious to know what expectations were placed on the children before the experiment? Did they know their partner? Were they hungry? What if they didn't think someone was watching? There is too much unknown to take this blindly as sharing.

I agree that more info is needed; context is everything.

Imagine the following setup: each child is told (separately) that if they were good the plate would have a sandwich for them, but not so if they were bad. Would they share? What if they were not told separately? (this is only one in a million ways to influence the experiments outcome).

Also, this is a *humanitarian *commercial.

>> ^Oxen_Morale:

I would be curious to know what expectations were placed on the children before the experiment? Did they know their partner? Were they hungry? What if they didn't think someone was watching? There is too much unknown to take this blindly as sharing.

Adding video to channels (Commercial, Humanitarian) - requested by hpqp.

Spanish is a beautiful language

once again showing how toddlers are fundamentally smarter than most republicans.

why is it that schools are a place of competition rather than cooperation...when it is fairly clear that cooperation is what pushes humanity to evolve?
and that the majority of our elected leaders are lawyers who go through an education (training) devoted to the "adversarial" proceeding?

I find it interesting that so many people have decided to inject politics into this video.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'share, kids, children, experiment' to 'share, kids, children, experiment, 2 kids 1 sandwich' - edited by xxovercastxx

>> ^notarobot:

And later, who teaches them greed?


Adverts.

I liked the part where it was happy!

Some funny comments in here, wish i could doubleupvote a few.

Sharing is an immutable law with children around the world... until their early teens. Then marked differences start to occur, based on country/culture. Would be VERY interesting to replicate this worldwide, and change the ages of the kids to find the upper limits in each country... possibly also increasing the "value" of the sandwich, as well.

What do you mean "later"?

1:12, my friend, 1:12.

>> ^notarobot:

And later, who teaches them greed?

>> ^bareboards2:

What do you mean "later"?
1:12, my friend, 1:12.
>> ^notarobot:
And later, who teaches them greed?



As well as :48. She starts eating it right away. Makes me wonder how much they cut out--how many kids just said "mine" and didn't think to share. I'm betting quite a few, and they had to do this experiment with dozens of kids to find a few that weren't spoiled rotten brats.

Just sayin...

Anyone know what she says in Spanish?

We just need more sandwiches for the rich kid. Then there would be many dishes to wash, and thus the crusts could trickle down to the other kid.>> ^Peroxide:

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
The kid with the richer parents should get the sandwich. The lazy one should get no entitlements. After the better child finishes, the crumbs should be given as (tax deductible) charity to the lesser child. Anything less would be socialism.

You forgot that the lazy child without the sandwich should politely ask if he/she can do the dishes and in return receive a crust from the sandwich. However, the dishes have already been done by the other hungry kids and the crust is gone. Too bad there just aren't enough dishes to do for everyone! Oh well.

I would hope in a test they would say sternly " THIS IS ALL THE FOOD YOU ARE GETTING TODAY "

then see what happens.

The comments made so far are easily as interesting as the video itself.

There are those that feel the video is a positive confirmation of our innate goodness as a species.

There are those that take the video as a light piece of inspiring fluff that is meant to make you think positively about sharing.

There are those that discount the video as being unscientific and say that its result could be easily controlled and dismiss it saying that it proves nothing.

There are those that suggest that the video represents a contrast to the current socio-political state of the world where so few have so much and so many have so little.

I wonder if the people who created the video ever contemplated its potential impact in such a diverse fashion?

>> ^messenger:

Anyone know what she says in Spanish?
The CC worked for me.

Don't see any obvious sociopaths in the group, just kids acting like kids, on a good day. It's when they're asked to share with a kid they don't like, or maybe siblings, when they can get fussy.

And yes, just about everything on here gets political somehow, which is another sociological experiment in itself.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

The kid with the richer parents should get the sandwich. The lazy one should get no entitlements. After the better child finishes, the crumbs should be given as (tax deductible) charity to the lesser child. Anything less would be socialism.


The kid with the poorer parents should get the sandwich. The rich one already has more than enough. It wouldn't be fair to let the rich kid get even richer.

My kids are in this age group, and I've watched their school. Of about 20 kids in each of their classes, at LEAST 2 or more of the kids were under constant watch for sneaking in to steal the other kids lunches or special things. Another 2-3 go in fits where they deliberately and willfully seek to cause pain to the other kids.

This video doesn't match the reality I live in. Kids CAN be like this, but they can also be even more petty, cruel and mean than most adults. We try and train/condition them to do better, and it generally has the effect intended, but inevitably in some cases has the opposite effect.