.@mirandachale :) - Have a look at this - there were accusations of bigotry! http://bit.ly/Xh3Bos
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@philosophyexp@mirandachale I said plenty, not most. Perhaps those people troll posts/articles about fat rather than do philosophy expermts
@mollydot @mirandachale 120k have taken the fat man test. It would show up. Trolls are precisely trolling (i.e., they don't mean it).
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@philosophyexp@mirandachale Can you convince me w numbers? How many is "many of whom...do actually make broadly utilitarian calculations"? -
@mollydot Hang on, I'll run the numbers for you. -
@philosophyexp ...enough about stats.So I can assume 95% means you're right, 50% means your wrong,but I don't know about,say, 80%, 85%, 90%. -
@mollydot ok - key stat - only 26% of 71153 people who are *not* utilitarians think the fat man should be sacrificed. This suggests fatness -
@philosophyexp Is that 26% of people who disavowed utilitarianism, or 26% of people who didn't eg divert the train? -
@mollydot I'll check the didn't divert the train. Not diverting the train, but throwing the fat man off would be very odd. Interesting! :) -
@philosophyexp IIRC, that's the only example where the person you'd sacrifice/torture isn't (known to be) fat. -
@mollydot Only 7% of those who choose *not* to divert train throw fat man off bridge. So again, it doesn't look like fatness is big factor. - 12 more replies
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