On the one hand, I agree with Paradiddle that the methodology used doesn’t let us draw the conclusion stated at the end of this post, and thus this is an anti-example of a study I want to see on LW.
On the other hand, I do think the concept here is valuable, and I do have a high prior probability that something like a conflationary alliance is going on with consciousness, because it’s often an input into questions of moral worth, and thus there is an incentive to both fight over the word, and make the word’s use as wide or as narrow as possible.
I have to give this a −1 for it’s misleading methodology (and not realizing this), for local validity reasons.
On the one hand, I agree with Paradiddle that the methodology used doesn’t let us draw the conclusion stated at the end of this post, and thus this is an anti-example of a study I want to see on LW.
On the other hand, I do think the concept here is valuable, and I do have a high prior probability that something like a conflationary alliance is going on with consciousness, because it’s often an input into questions of moral worth, and thus there is an incentive to both fight over the word, and make the word’s use as wide or as narrow as possible.
I have to give this a −1 for it’s misleading methodology (and not realizing this), for local validity reasons.