Optimistic About Honesty

Optimistic About Honesty

Honest Tea, known for grabbing publicity like its 2012 unveiling of a large recycling bin in New York City, recently set out to see how honest people really are. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Honest Tea)

The makers of Honest Tea recently set out to find America's most honest city. According to USA TODAY, the tea maker visited 60 locations in 50 states. They did it by offering an unsupervised tea stand, where folks were invited to have a tea and asked to leave $1 in exchange for their bottle of tea.

Here's the story:

Unfortunately, the closest they came to trying the experiment in Battle Creek was Detroit, though Motown placed fairly well in the survey. Here are the results of Honest Tea's "National Honesty Index":

How honest do you think we are in Battle Creek? Would you leave a dollar for a tea? Or just help yourself to a freebie?

 

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