That’s only weak evidence about the correlation between non-consequentialism and dust specking. If we had 670 consequentialists, 50 deontologists, 180 virtue ethicists, and 200 others, and 40% of each chose dust specks, we’d get numbers like yours even though there wouldn’t be a correlation.
I did a crosstab, which should be more informative:
I get different totals for the number of speckers (397) and non-consequentialists (386), though. Maybe my copy of the data’s messed up? (Gnumeric complains the XLS might be corrupt.)
Anyway, I do see a correlation between specks & moral paradigm. My dust speck percentages:
41% for consequentialism (N = 560)
67% for deontology (N = 36)
47% for other/none (N = 145)
65% for virtue ethics (N = 116)
leaving out people who didn’t answer. Consequentialists chose dust specks at a lower rate than each other group (which chi-squared tests confirm is statistically significant). But 41% of our consequentialists did still choose dust specks.
[Edit: “indentation is preserved”, my arse. I am not a Markdown fan.]
That’s only weak evidence about the correlation between non-consequentialism and dust specking. If we had 670 consequentialists, 50 deontologists, 180 virtue ethicists, and 200 others, and 40% of each chose dust specks, we’d get numbers like yours even though there wouldn’t be a correlation.
I did a crosstab, which should be more informative:
I get different totals for the number of speckers (397) and non-consequentialists (386), though. Maybe my copy of the data’s messed up? (Gnumeric complains the XLS might be corrupt.)
Anyway, I do see a correlation between specks & moral paradigm. My dust speck percentages:
41% for consequentialism (N = 560)
67% for deontology (N = 36)
47% for other/none (N = 145)
65% for virtue ethics (N = 116)
leaving out people who didn’t answer. Consequentialists chose dust specks at a lower rate than each other group (which chi-squared tests confirm is statistically significant). But 41% of our consequentialists did still choose dust specks.
[Edit: “indentation is preserved”, my arse. I am not a Markdown fan.]