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Including in this scenario, where "normal contraband interception operations" are completely impractical?
Are you familiar with the heat map meme?
The heat map meme confuses me. According to this, the instructions are that each circle includes the ones inside it, i.e. liberals are at most guilty of caring about too many things, as opposed to too far things. But then this implies that the circles are exclusive of each other.
Apparently, the description of the task in the Methods section and the supplementary notes is in fact different. I'd assume most participants would follow the actual handout text rather than what the researchers claim they explained.
Apparently apparently, there were two tasks related to the moral circle and the heat map meme is about the simplified "extent" task, where the participants were simply asked to click on the rung that includes everything they care about.
P.P.S. Why is there no circle numbered 0 and labeled "myself only"? I'd like to see what the distribution between that and "immediate family" would be.
The study is at best extremely poorly designed, but generated a convenient image that feels true regarding the actual nature of liberal emotivism rather than what liberals claim about their cares.
Not just rung! Despite being, in theory, cohesive layers, people only clicked near the numbers.
The people that designed the study were idiots.
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