{"id":2525,"date":"2014-02-23T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2014-02-23T01:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T08:00:21","slug":"lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2014\/02\/23\/lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a post  <a href='http:\/\/blog.talkingphilosophy.com\/?p=7784'>On Returning the Lost | Talking Philosophy<\/a>, philosopher Mike LaBossiere raises the question as to whether his habit of returning found wallets without removing the money is abnormal.<\/p>\n<p>I should hope not! but in fact one commenter confessed to the opposite practice (which I&#8217;m afraid drew me in to a rather heated exchange &#8211; prompted in particular by his self-serving presumption about the relative wealth of the wallet&#8217;s owner).<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the question of actual statistics is interesting, and another commenter referred to experiments in which wallets have been deliberately &#8220;lost&#8221;, so I thought it might be worth reporting on another such <del>experiment<\/del> study.<\/p>\n<p>We only have about half a dozen sample points so far, but my wife seems intent on running a long term observational study of this matter and in Vancouver BC has had 100% return of the wallet, 50% with cash included and 50% cash removed (including one case where the wallet returned for reward had been in a dropped bike pannier with other items which were never recovered). <\/p>\n<p>Although the financial benefit of getting the money back is usually quite small (at least in relation to other matters) the sense of faith in one&#8217;s fellow humans that results from such an event is quite wonderful &#8211; and I am pretty sure that benefits of that sort continue to multiply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post On Returning the Lost | Talking Philosophy, philosopher Mike LaBossiere raises the question as to whether his habit of returning found wallets without removing the money is abnormal. I should hope not! but in fact one commenter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2014\/02\/23\/lost-and-found\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions\/2526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}