Several years ago, some citizens of the town of Manchester, Vermont, decided to launch a school fund-raising campaign. A private group of citizens decided how much every household and business should contribute, and there was a good deal of social pressure to pay the full amount. One flier urged, “We cannot sit back and wait for our neighbors to carry the load”

[Tomsho, 2001, p. A1]. Use the experimental results on free riding discussed in this chapter to predict the outcome of this campaign.