Entrepreneurial+preferences+experiment

=Entrepreneurial Preferences Experiment=

In Dan Ariely's TED talk on irrational decision making, he illustrates how organ donation rates differ across European nations. Using pair-wise comparisons, he shows that these differences aren't related to cultural issues, but on how each nation designs its forms. Nations with forms that said "Check below if you would like to be an organ donor" found that most people did not check the box and did not join. In the nations with high participation rates, the form said "Check the box below if you do not want to be an organ donor." Citizens of those nations did not check the box and joined.

I gave 37 Foundations of Entrepreneurship students a practice quiz with two multiple choice questions. Each quiz had a “check-the-box” question at the bottom about joining the entrepreneurship club. This question was worded two different ways…



Results

 * 29/37 (78%) prefer the status quo (they didn't check the box)
 * 3 students checked and didn’t join the club
 * 18 students didn’t check the box and joined the club