The correct answer is B) the majority of people are honest.
The final conclusion that the authors arrived at through the bagel example was that the majority of people are honest.
We are talking about the book "Freakonomics," written by American authors Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. The book was a marketing success and became a best-seller, translated into 40 languages. In one of the many examples the set, they concluded that after all the situations related, the majority of people are honest.