If a boy, a girl, a cat and a dog were left in a park alone, who would be rescued first? Our social experiment tests the reactions of passersby... and the results may surprise you

DailyMail.com placed two children - a six-year-old girl, Sam (top left) and a six-year-old boy, Sam (top right) - as well as a dog, Charlie (bottom left) and a cat, Mrs Parberry (bottom right) at different points in Manhattan's Washington Square Park as part of a social experiment. 


All four were being monitored by carers and secretly filmed.  So who do you think was the first to be 'rescued' by a stranger in the least amount of time alone? The results of the test were both shocking and, to some degree, expected. Interestingly, each person to stop and try and help was female.