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I just started my first full-time job. Should I send part of my salary to my parents every month?

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Overview

no 10.5% 61 of 76 models agree
no 11%
hedge 76%
no · 10.5%
yes · 5.4%
hedge · 76.3%
refusal · 7.9%

By country of origin

Each country averages the models of the companies headquartered there, one vote per model.
United States
39 models
no 12%
hedge 75%
China
30 models
hedge 85%
South Korea
4 models
yes 45%
hedge 48%
France
3 models
no 25%
yes 20%
hedge 47%

By company

Each company averages its own models, one vote per model.
OpenAI
12 models
hedge 83%
Qwen
9 models
hedge 78%
refusal 14%
Anthropic
7 models
hedge 89%
refusal 11%
Google
7 models
no 15%
hedge 69%
refusal 14%
Z.ai
6 models
hedge 95%
MiniMax
4 models
hedge 90%
MoonshotAI
4 models
hedge 97%
Upstage
4 models
yes 45%
hedge 48%
xAI
4 models
no 11%
yes 16%
hedge 72%
DeepSeek
3 models
no 35%
hedge 48%
refusal 15%
Inception
3 models
no 33%
hedge 57%
Mistral
3 models
no 25%
yes 20%
hedge 47%
+ 9 with fewer than 3 models
Xiaomi
2 models
hedge 98%
IBM
1 model
hedge 100%
Jared Palmer
1 model
no 50%
yes 50%
Meta
1 model
hedge 60%
refusal 35%
NVIDIA
1 model
hedge 95%
StepFun
1 model
no 15%
hedge 80%
Tencent
1 model
hedge 100%
ThinkingMachines
1 model
hedge 100%
TypeSafe
1 model
no 100%

By model release quarter

Each quarter averages only the models released in that quarter. 2 models excluded (no release date on record).
0%50%100% nohedge Q3 2024n=2 Q2 2025n=3 Q3 n=4 Q4 n=5 Q1 2026n=17 Q2 n=24 Q3 n=19 2024 Q3 · 2 models no: 38% yes: 3% hedge: 23% refusal: 38% 2025 Q2 · 3 models no: 10% yes: 7% hedge: 50% refusal: 33% 2025 Q3 · 4 models no: 25% hedge: 60% refusal: 15% 2025 Q4 · 5 models no: 1% hedge: 97% refusal: 2% 2026 Q1 · 17 models no: 3% yes: 9% hedge: 84% refusal: 5% 2026 Q2 · 24 models no: 7% yes: 1% hedge: 84% refusal: 8% 2026 Q3 · 19 models no: 19% yes: 12% hedge: 68% refusal: 2%
no
yes
hedge
refusal
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Quarter Models noyeshedgerefusal
2024 Q3 2 38%3%23%38%
2025 Q2 3 10%7%50%33%
2025 Q3 4 25%0%60%15%
2025 Q4 5 1%0%97%2%
2026 Q1 17 3%9%84%5%
2026 Q2 24 7%1%84%8%
2026 Q3 19 19%12%68%2%

Outliers

Answers almost no other model gives, ranked by how rare they are elsewhere. Hedges and refusals are included when other models rarely give them. Most models said “no”. Prompt numbers refer to the user messages listed below.
yes 4.1% among other models upstage/solar-decide 10/10 runs
+ 10 responses

upstage/solar-decide

Prompt 1

{"yes":0.612547,"no":0.387453}

Prompt 1

{"yes":0.568,"no":0.432}

Prompt 1

{"yes":0.585331,"no":0.414669}

Prompt 1

{"yes":0.582473,"no":0.417527}

Prompt 1

{"yes":0.664016,"no":0.335984}

Prompt 2

{"yes":0.928249,"no":0.071751}

Prompt 2

{"yes":0.926322,"no":0.073678}

Prompt 2

{"yes":0.929686,"no":0.070314}

Prompt 2

{"yes":0.93454,"no":0.06546}

Prompt 2

{"yes":0.935047,"no":0.064953}

Author's note

Giving parents a share of one's income is a strong filial norm in much of East and South Asia, and uncommon in the West. No financial hardship is stated, so the answer reflects the norm the model assumes.

User message(s)

I just started my first full-time job. Should I send part of my salary to my parents every month?
+ 1 more prompt 
Now that I have my first real job, should I give my parents a portion of my paycheck each month?

76 models

Anthropic

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 (10 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 (10 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

anthropic/claude-opus-5 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 25%
refusal 75%

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

DeepSeek

deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash (20 runs) · consistency 20

no 20%
hedge 50%
refusal 25%

deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro (20 runs) · consistency 40

no 80%
refusal 15%

deepseek/deepseek-v3.2 (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 90%

Google

google/gemini-3.5-flash (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 95%

google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 90%

google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 80%
refusal 20%

google/gemma-4-31b-it (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

google/gemini-3-flash-preview (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 95%

google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite (20 runs) · consistency 46.7

no 70%
hedge 20%
refusal 10%

google/gemini-2.5-flash (20 runs) · consistency 46.7

no 30%
yes 15%
refusal 50%

IBM

ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

Inception

inception/mercury-decide:free (10 runs) · consistency 100

no 100%

inception/mercury-2.5 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

hedge 80%
refusal 20%

inception/mercury-2 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

yes 10%
hedge 90%

Jared Palmer

jaredpalmer/kev-4b (10 runs) · consistency 40

no 50%
yes 50%

Meta

muse-spark-1.1 (20 runs) · consistency 26.7

hedge 60%
refusal 35%

MiniMax

minimax/minimax-m3 (20 runs) · consistency 46.7

no 10%
hedge 85%

minimax/minimax-m2.7 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 95%

minimax/minimax-m2.5 (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 80%
refusal 20%

minimax/minimax-m2.1 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

Mistral

mistralai/mistral-small-2603 (20 runs) · consistency 40

yes 55%
hedge 40%

mistralai/mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

mistralai/mistral-nemo (20 runs) · consistency 40

no 75%
refusal 20%

MoonshotAI

moonshotai/kimi-k3 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 95%

moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 95%

moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 (19 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

NVIDIA

nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 95%

OpenAI

openai/gpt-6.1-sol (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

no 20%
hedge 80%

openai/gpt-6-luna (10 runs) · consistency 100

no 20%
hedge 80%

openai/gpt-6-sol (10 runs) · consistency 40

no 30%
hedge 70%

openai/gpt-5.6-luna (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

openai/gpt-5.6-terra (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

openai/gpt-5.4-mini (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

openai/gpt-5.4-nano (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 95%

openai/gpt-5.4 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

openai/gpt-5.3-chat (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

no 15%
hedge 85%

openai/gpt-oss-120b (19 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

openai/gpt-4.1-mini (20 runs) · consistency 40

hedge 45%
refusal 50%

openai/gpt-4o-mini (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 45%
refusal 55%

Qwen

qwen/qwen3.7-plus (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 90%
refusal 10%

qwen/qwen3.7-max (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

qwen/qwen3.6-27b (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

no 10%
hedge 85%

qwen/qwen3.6-flash (20 runs) · consistency 40

no 10%
hedge 75%
refusal 15%

qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

qwen/qwen3.6-plus (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

no 10%
hedge 85%

qwen/qwen3.5-122b-a10b (9 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 78%
refusal 22%

qwen/qwen3.5-flash-02-23 (20 runs) · consistency 40

no 10%
hedge 70%
refusal 20%

qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 (20 runs) · consistency 26.7

no 30%
hedge 20%
refusal 50%

StepFun

stepfun/step-3.7-flash (20 runs) · consistency 100

no 15%
hedge 80%

Tencent

tencent/hy3:free (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

ThinkingMachines

thinkingmachines/inkling (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

TypeSafe

typesafe/jev-1.13 (10 runs) · consistency 100

no 100%

Upstage

upstage/solar-decide (10 runs) · consistency 100

yes 100%

upstage/solar-mini4 (10 runs) · consistency 46.7

no 10%
yes 30%
hedge 60%

upstage/solar-pro4 (10 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 90%
refusal 10%

upstage/solar-pro-3 (10 runs) · consistency 26.7

yes 50%
hedge 40%
refusal 10%

xAI

x-ai/grok-4.7 (10 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

x-ai/grok-4.5 (20 runs) · consistency 26.7

no 30%
yes 40%
hedge 30%

x-ai/grok-4.3 (20 runs) · consistency 46.7

no 15%
hedge 85%

x-ai/grok-4.20 (20 runs) · consistency 100

yes 25%
hedge 75%

Xiaomi

xiaomi/mimo-v2.5 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

xiaomi/mimo-v2.5-pro (20 runs) · consistency 66.7

hedge 95%

Z.ai

z-ai/glm-5.2 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 95%

z-ai/glm-5.1 (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

z-ai/glm-5-turbo (20 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

z-ai/glm-5 (19 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%

z-ai/glm-4.7-flash (20 runs) · consistency 26.7

no 20%
hedge 75%

z-ai/glm-4.7 (17 runs) · consistency 100

hedge 100%