Sixty-three percent of subjects who were not in a hurry stopped to offer help to the “victim.” Only ten percent of subjects who were in a hurry offered help. In contrast, the dispositional measure concerning the nature of religious orientation played virtually no role in determining whether the subject stopped to help. The Darley and Batson experiment thus, in a sense, replicates but amends the lesson of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Their experiment invites us to surmise that all the priests and Levites who passed by on the other side of the road were simply running behind schedule!
The interpretation is not right.
