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Trusting on the Internet is easier

03.01.2003

The prevalence of the Internet in a particular country is usually associated with the number of personal computers, the level of education and the level of income of the population.

But the American sociologist Jonathan Leland found a correlation with an unexpected factor: the degree of trust in people. He compared data on the number of households connected to the Internet in 17 countries with the number of positive answers to the question "Do you think people are generally trustworthy?" The question was included in the questionnaire of an international psychological survey conducted several years ago and aimed at identifying the basic life values among different peoples.

It turned out that almost two-thirds of the differences in the prevalence of the Internet are explained by this factor - the degree of trust in people. Among the most "gullible" countries, the authors of the study name Norway, as an example of "distrustful" - Brazil. Even if the influence of other factors, such as the number of computers in a country, is eliminated by statistical processing, the factor of trust remains important for the prevalence of the Internet.

How can such a result be explained? The Internet is a huge medium, the size and anonymity of which can encourage dishonesty and deceit, as we all know at least from the example of "virus writers". Therefore, people are wary, distrustful and do not really want to go there. The degree of gullibility of the population of different countries is the result of cultural and historical characteristics.

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