Self‑Report Generosity Doesn’t Equal Giving

National rankings built from people’s self‑descriptions of kindness (Remitly’s Interpersonal Generosity Scale) correlate only moderately (Pearson ≈ 0.45) with a behavior‑oriented giving index (CAF World Giving Index). That divergence means some countries look generous in self‑image but not on reported acts like donating, volunteering, or helping strangers. — Media and policy that treat self‑reported virtue scales as equivalent to real-world prosocial behavior risk misleading public debate and national reputations.