Civic honesty around the globe

This thread has had a huge influx of comments from new accounts in the last 24 hours—over 250 and counting. They are all, I think, critical of the study. Many have been unsubstantive, but many have had interesting things to say.

Normally we'd consider closing the thread in a case like this, to prevent it from being brigaded. But this is an unusual case and I'm curious to see how far it goes.

In case any of the new commenters happens to read this: I'm the lead moderator of Hacker News. Would you mind sharing with us how you found out about this discussion? It's unusual for us to see so much activity in a thread that is already several days old, and I'm curious to find out what happened.

Because this topic is becoming one of the hottest topic in Chinese ask and answer platform “zhihu”. I realized some answers mentioned this website because one of the authors in paper answers some questions. The answers from the author of the paper enraged us，because his explainnation was ridiculous and full of prejudice. As a email unfriendly country, even though Chinese may have email address, it doesn’t mean we want to use it in normal life. Besides, as far as I know, most people work in recipotions do not even have a email from the work place. Another answer is about japan， it is even more ridiculous. China and japan share a similar culture, the authors exclude japan because they found people will give the wallet to police booth. In china we usually give the wallet to lost and found box. I do not see the difference between police office and the box at all. Those are the main questions Chinese want to ask, and we need a answer. Sorry for leaving so many similar comments below this topic, but we want a reasonable answer.