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Raist No. 2
10-05-2008, 03:10 AM
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mi nd.html

I don't know if I can embed that, but if I can and someone wants to help me out there that'd be great, never really tried it before.

Basically it's a lecture from a UVA psychologist at TED (annual congregation of lecturers, produces some pretty neat stuff) that splits a person's morals into five parts: harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, ingroup/loyalty, authority/respect, and purity. Some of the definitions are a little sketchy to me, but that's to be expected of any cerebral simplification like that really. Either way, it's a pretty interesting lecture and I recommend it to anyone who has the time (it's about twenty minutes long).

Anyway, he's also set up a site, www.yourmorals.org, which has the quiz he mentioned (as well as, like, twenty more). You have to register to get to it, though. It's a little overly basic, but it makes for some interesting comparisons all the same.

Mine (Green):

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/538/surveyresultsgraphlibcoph9.png

I'm thinking my fairness should be higher and my loyalty a little lower, as usual I kind of rushed through it and it won't let me take it again without reregistering (which would kind of be unethical, considering).

Lancet Jades
10-05-2008, 04:12 AM
Mine:

Lancet Jades: wow, my test results are like the same as yours almost
tmhamlin: ask me how much I'm not surprised
Lancet Jades: how much aren't you surprised?
tmhamlin: grand amounts of unsurprise abound in me, sir

Nickelback
10-05-2008, 04:16 AM
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8692/30687704bs3.png

Interesting. I'd say that's about right.

Rainbow Dash
10-05-2008, 09:00 AM
Well, that was rather paradoxical. "We need to try to change peoples' mindset to understand this kind of thinking" is a liberal idea, is it not?

http://www.yourmorals.org/surveyresults_graph_libcon.php ?u=231908&tbl=5f_new2&type=&scale=5&match=&rev=&title=Moral%20Foundation%20Res ults&ytitle=Score&xtitle=Foundation&labels[]=Harm&labels[]=Fairness&labels[]=Loyalty&labels[]=Authority&labels[]=Purity&&vars[0][]=5f_part1_2&vars[0][]=5f_part1_3&vars[0][]=5f_part1_4&vars[0][]=5f_part2_2&vars[0][]=5f_part2_3&vars[0][]=5f_part2_4&vars[1][]=5f_part1_5&vars[1][]=5f_part1_6&vars[1][]=5f_part1_7&vars[1][]=5f_part2_5&vars[1][]=5f_part2_6&vars[1][]=5f_part2_7&vars[2][]=5f_part1_8&vars[2][]=5f_part1_9&vars[2][]=5f_part1_10&vars[2][]=5f_part2_8&vars[2][]=5f_part2_9&vars[2][]=5f_part2_10&vars[3][]=5f_part1_11&vars[3][]=5f_part1_12&vars[3][]=5f_part1_13&vars[3][]=5f_part2_11&vars[3][]=5f_part2_12&vars[3][]=5f_part2_13&vars[4][]=5f_part1_14&vars[4][]=5f_part1_15&vars[4][]=5f_part1_16&vars[4][]=5f_part2_14&vars[4][]=5f_part2_15&vars[4][]=5f_part2_16&

Seraph Zero
11-06-2008, 02:09 AM
Somehow, my results don't surprise me... Brutal, anti-authority, impure, but just and loyal. Go figure.