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From the Ted Talk by Dan Ariely: Are we in control of our own decisions?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
When you ask people this question, they usually think that it has to be about culture. How much do you care about people? Giving organs to somebody else is probably about how much you care about society, how linked you are. Or maybe it's about religion. But if you look at this plot, you can see that citnerous that we think about as very similar, actually exhibit very different behavior. For example, Sweden is all the way on the right, and Denmark, which we think is culturally very similar, is all the way on the left. gmraney is on the left, and artusia is on the right. The nahetdnelrs is on the left, and Belgium is on the right. And fnilaly, depending on your particular version of European similarity, you can think about the U.K. and France as either similar culturally or not, but it truns out that with organ donation, they are very different.
Open Cloze
When you ask people this question, they usually think that it has to be about culture. How much do you care about people? Giving organs to somebody else is probably about how much you care about society, how linked you are. Or maybe it's about religion. But if you look at this plot, you can see that _________ that we think about as very similar, actually exhibit very different behavior. For example, Sweden is all the way on the right, and Denmark, which we think is culturally very similar, is all the way on the left. _______ is on the left, and _______ is on the right. The ___________ is on the left, and Belgium is on the right. And _______, depending on your particular version of European similarity, you can think about the U.K. and France as either similar culturally or not, but it _____ out that with organ donation, they are very different.
Solution
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Original Text
When you ask people this question, they usually think that it has to be about culture. How much do you care about people? Giving organs to somebody else is probably about how much you care about society, how linked you are. Or maybe it's about religion. But if you look at this plot, you can see that countries that we think about as very similar, actually exhibit very different behavior. For example, Sweden is all the way on the right, and Denmark, which we think is culturally very similar, is all the way on the left. Germany is on the left, and Austria is on the right. The Netherlands is on the left, and Belgium is on the right. And finally, depending on your particular version of European similarity, you can think about the U.K. and France as either similar culturally or not, but it turns out that with organ donation, they are very different.
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