Honest Tea "is the nation's top-selling organic bottled tea company specializing in beverages that are just a tad sweet," according to a company statement. It is a local company, founded in Bethesda, MD in 1989. They recently conducted a non-scientific experiment - a fun "Honesty Study" - around the country to see how honest people are. The company set up self-serve kiosks of iced, Honest Tea - with signs by the kiosks which asked passers-by to pay $1- on the honor system - for a bottle of iced tea.
How often are Bethesdans honest? About 91 percent of the time, according to the "Honesty Study." 91 percent of people taking tea from kiosks set up in Bethesda on July 10—outside the Barnes & Noble bookstore at 4801 Bethesda Ave.—paid for their tea, according to company tallies.
The other Maryland location was in Baltimore, where fewer tea-takers paid up, resulting in a state-wide average of 89 percent honesty (and a national ranking of 41st). OOPS!
The most honest tea-takers were in Alabama and Hawaii, where 100 percent of tea bottles were paid for, according to the experient.
The least honest tea-takers were in Washington, DC, where only 80 percent of tea bottles were paid for.
The study found that (of the participants), 95 percent of women were honest, and 91 percent of men were honest. (Gender results were the same in the company's 2012 honesty test.) Overall, 92 percent of tea-takers were honest. Ninety-five percent of blonde women and 94 percent of men with glasses were honest, according to study results, which broke the data down into a number of categories.
The study also found that, among participants, 96 percent of people in groups were honest, while only 91 percent of people on their own were honest and paid for their tea.
The complete National Honesty Index findings are available at www.NationalHonestyIndex.com.
Honest Tea will donate all of the funds collected in the study to FoodCorps, a nationwide organization that helps provide children with healthy food.
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