WHAT DO SCHOOL

TEACHERS AND SUMO

WRESTLERS HAVE IN
COMMON?
SUB: QT

PRESENTED BY:
ABHIPSA MALLICK
UMG19001
 STORY ILLUSTRATION

Israeli Day Care

• solution for tardy parents who repeatedly come late to
pick up their children from daycare
• $3 fine for each child when a parent showed up more
than ten minutes late
• The incentive of $3 was too small
• Later inconvenience of a late pickup absolved parents
of the moral guilt
Cheating in Chicago Public School

• Public schools with low test scores risked being shut

down
• teachers with low test scores can be passed over for
promotions or even fired
• many teachers had incentives to cheat and inflate their
students' scores
• In order to check this, investigators looked for patterns
• cheating by changing her students' answers before
handing in the answer sheets
Sumo wrestlers also cheat to make their records better

• sumo wrestler's ranking determines everything from

how much money he makes to how much he gets to eat
and sleep

• Rankings are determined by a wrestler's performance in

the elite tournaments

• A wrestler with 8-6 record allows 7-7 to beat him

• a social incentive, or some other arrangement with the

other wrestler
THE BAGEL MAN
• Paul Feldman dropped off bagels at different offices
• Moto: to see how many people paid the requested
money
• Many stole
• Suddenly a spike in people’s honesty and pay rate
increased
• People were were honest than before
INCENTIVES AND CHEATING
THEORY
Examples cite the concept of incentives
Positive Incentive – Reward
Negative Incentive – Punishment
TYPES OF
INCENTIVES
Economic Incentive:
material incentives, often in the form of money
or property
Social Incentive:
incentives based on human beings’ desire to
be accepted and liked by other people
Moral Incentives:
based on people’s desire to “do the right thing”
STATISTICS
Levitt uses data analytics to expose things that are
different on surface
Uses both new and data to come up to a conclusion
In Sumo players case, uses statistics to forecast match
results