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Psychology’s favourite thought experiment doesn’t predict real-world behaviour (bps.org.uk)
3 points by DanBC on June 21, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I think it's important that they examined at least the correlation between the thought-experiment answers and the actual behavior.

If there's one thing that makes me immediately suspect a study, it's when the data includes in significant part anything self-reported by the study subjects, without accompanying very strong evidence (ideally from someone else's much larger study) that such self-reporting corresponds to something more objectively measurable.


Full title is too long: Psychology’s favourite moral thought experiment doesn’t predict real-world behaviour




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