Five minutes are missing
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OBSERVATION / THE UNSEEN SITUATION
Five minutes are missing
The previous five minutes of a human life are rarely available for inspection.
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WHO OFFERED HELP?
0 50 100
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Low 63%
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Mid 45%
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High 10%
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Hurry level / percentage offering help
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FIGURE 13 / Left: interpretive art. Right: reported helping percentages from 40 seminary students. Hurry was varied experimentally. Error bars are not shown. [42]
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QUESTION
Does time pressure affect whether assistance is offered?
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TEST
Forty seminary students were assigned different levels of hurry before passing a person who appeared to need help. [42]
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RESULT
Help was offered by 63% in low hurry, 45% in intermediate hurry and 10% in high hurry. These small groups are not universal forecasts. [42]
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IMPLICATION
Human behavior should be interpreted with its circumstances. Space for attention can be protected; an unseen history should not be invented.
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Archive maxim: Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.