when he started his business, he expected a 95 percent payment rate, based on the experience at his own…

when he started his business, he expected a 95 percent payment rate, based on the experience at his own office. but just as crime tends to be low on a street where a police car is parked, the 95 percent rate was artificially high: feldmans presence had deterred theft. not only that, but those bagel eaters knew the provider and had feelings (presumably good ones) about him. a broad swath of psychological and economic research has shown that people will pay different amounts for the same item depending on who is providing it....\nin the real world, feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. he came to consider a company “honest” if its payment rate was above 90 percent. he considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent “annoying but tolerable.”\nthe excerpt helps the authors arrive at their conclusion by\nrestating their claim about cheating.\npresenting facts about the bagel business.\nproviding statistical evidence.\nusing deductive reasoning.

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