Lab #4: Trust

In order to test out this lab, I surveyed forty people about how they felt about trust. I asked them two questions: First, do you think the average person can be trusted and then I asked them how many people they have known that they have fully trusted. After getting all the results, I found the 73% of the people believed that the average person could not be trusted and that only 27% of people could be.
Some people gave their own explanation for the reasoning behind their answer. I got these responses from people who said that the average person could not be trusted said this:
-“No, the average person can not be trusted because people are only looking out for themselves.”
-“No, trust has to be earned. It takes a long time to earn trust, and just a few seconds to destroy it.”
-“No, I don’t think that the average person can be trusted because most people these days are caught up in gossip and they can’t help themselves but to join in on the talk. Also a lot of people rely on lying to fix things.”

These were the responses from people who said that they would trust the average person:
-“Yes, because most people have been betrayed in their life and know the importance of trust.”
-“I feel the average person can be trusted because they know that if they were telling you something important, they would not want it told either.”
For the second part of the survey I asked everyone about how many people they had known that they felt they could fully trust. I found that 70% of the people said they knew 0 to 5 people they could fully trust, 20% of people said they knew 6 to 10 people they could fully trust and 10% of the people said they knew 11 to 20 people that they could fully trust.
Overall, it seems that people definitely don't trust the people around them.