In a few recent posts I’ve used examples from the work of Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser. For the curious, here is a link to his online Moral Sense Test.
wjh1.wjh.harvard.edu/~moral/test.php
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Re: The Moral Sense Test
Sun, July 6, 2008 - 1:37 PMDo it for science. There's no funbag of "You are a wicked foul slaughterer of the innocent" section; it's just part of a study.
Peeving that they want the "ethnicity" information, but I understand the reasoning. -
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Re: The Moral Sense Test
Sun, July 6, 2008 - 5:19 PM
I only got one question - that's it? -
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Re: The Moral Sense Test
Mon, July 7, 2008 - 7:19 AM>>>>>>I only got one question - that's it? <<<<<<<
The test has more than one question. There's a FAQ page; it might explain what went wrong and how it can be fixed.
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Re: The Moral Sense Test
Mon, July 7, 2008 - 7:15 AM>>>>>>>>Peeving that they want the "ethnicity" information, but I understand the reasoning. <<<<<<<
I'm reading Hauser's book Moral Minds and one aspect of the research involves questioning people from different nations and in different kinds of societies. (Modern Western, Islamic, hunter-gatherer, what have you.) There *are* differences, and that's part of Hauser's argument---that certain "parameters" of "universal moral grammar" are set differently in different kinds of societies. For example, herding socities place more emphasis on honor than do farming societies and allow for a greater level of violence.
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Re: The Moral Sense Test
Mon, July 7, 2008 - 8:24 AM<Peeving that they want the "ethnicity" information, but I understand the reasoning.>
I had no problem with it, I just marked other, and filled in "no affiliation".
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