For The Love Of Port

Let's hope that Porto would be better. I find the title to be a little skewed, but here it is:
Wallet drop: World's least honest cities
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/24/travel/le ... index.html

But we do not know the nationalities of the people who kept the other 11 do we?

I have been here a little short of 11 years. In that time I have had three thefts from the property. In 2008 two young olives trees uprooted from near the highway (someone passing when I noticed the loss stopped and said it would be French tourists). This time last year about 8 or 10 kilos of olives in a plastic collecting box in a shed (door closed with an open lock on a chain) about 30 yards from the house and 300 yards off the highway. I was picking olives about 100 yards away but out of sight. There were numerous electirc and hand tools lying loose in the same shed and closer to the door than the olives. About two months ago an ancient irrigation cannon and a short length of pipe cut off 50 metres that was adjacent to it. This time about 50 yards from the highway and tucked into a bank so that it was not seen by pasing traffic.

I sometimes wonder what makes people do such things. The trees would almost certainly die, the olives were freshly picked therefore inedible and worth about $US5 if bulked up with a large quantity and sold. The box cost about $3.The cannon barely worked and was obviously long past its best.

You and I do not. The people that did the study might have some idea, but I'm not sure. From the article it sounds like they actually watched what happened to the wallet, who picked it up, etc. In some cases they may not know, in others they might.

I do see your point. The fact the one returned wallet was returned by tourists certainly indicates the non-returned ones could have been taken by tourists as well.

Couldnt help wondering if 12 wallets is that representative in cities of many millions...
All you had to do was pick the wrong neighborhood, or the wrong time of day.
That said, the fact that Lisbon and Madrid came together at the bottom might be too much of a coincidence...
I grew up in Portugal, lived in Coimbra until I was 23 and then in Lisbon through age 25 and was never robbed, or really felt unsafe anywhere. But then, I didnt really go hang out in the problem neighborhoods either...

I agree that 12 is not a statistically valid sample. It does sound like they tried to place the wallets in comparative and varied places in each city.