Ian Sample
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2,123 appearances
29 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Ian Sample’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Doing obviously, but they were assessing people's um sort of social economic status, what sort of class they were at relatively by the type of car they were driving.
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But what they did find was that people in these sort of more flashier cars, they would be sort of, I suppose we call them worse drivers.
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But in the examples, they were they were cutting off other drivers at junctions more often than the lower class people or the people in the lower class cars.
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And they were also doing this thing that we see all the time.
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is just driving over pedestrian crossings when there's clearly people waiting.
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Uh that sort of
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I need to be
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Nature to other people existing in the world and having needs which may take priority over yours.
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Um, is a way I might interpret it.
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One of the the funniest studies they did was they said to all the participants, you know, one after the other, they said, Look, I've got to go to the room next door.
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We're doing another study with children.
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Um
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I'm gonna leave this jar of sweets in here while I go there.
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The sweets are for the children, but you know, for as a sort of reward as part of their study.
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If you really want one, you can have one.
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But like, you know, the sweets are for the children.
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They go away and they come back after about 30 seconds.
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And the upper class people um had eaten twice as many sweets as the lower class people when they were given that opportunity.
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And so the study after.
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It's just amusing.
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