Peter, why are you surprised that consequentialists are more likely to choose torture over dust specks than others? That seems to me like the expected observation.
Any statistical relationship between self-reported religious beliefs and self-reported charitable giving? (Investigations of the general population have tended to find that there is one, though I don’t think it’s easy to disentangle real differences from, e.g., some people falsely claiming to be more religious and more charitable than they really are because they think it looks better.)
Peter, why are you surprised that consequentialists are more likely to choose torture over dust specks than others? That seems to me like the expected observation.
It was apparently later than I thought and I eyeballed the relationship backwards. Heh. Fixed.
Any statistical relationship between self-reported religious beliefs and self-reported charitable giving?
Yes, sort of, and in the direction you expect.
I split religion up into theist (Lukewarm theist, committed theist, pantheist/deist/etc., N = 130) and nontheist (agnostic, atheist but spiritual, atheist and not spiritual, N = 745) and did a t-test:
Peter, why are you surprised that consequentialists are more likely to choose torture over dust specks than others? That seems to me like the expected observation.
Any statistical relationship between self-reported religious beliefs and self-reported charitable giving? (Investigations of the general population have tended to find that there is one, though I don’t think it’s easy to disentangle real differences from, e.g., some people falsely claiming to be more religious and more charitable than they really are because they think it looks better.)
It was apparently later than I thought and I eyeballed the relationship backwards. Heh. Fixed.
Yes, sort of, and in the direction you expect.
I split religion up into theist (Lukewarm theist, committed theist, pantheist/deist/etc., N = 130) and nontheist (agnostic, atheist but spiritual, atheist and not spiritual, N = 745) and did a t-test:
Theists: $597.71 Atheists: $419.34 p-value: 0.109
Then, by percentage of income:
Theists: 2.52% Atheists: 1.62% p-value: 0.203