.@mirandachale :) - Have a look at this - there were accusations of bigotry! http://bit.ly/Xh3Bos
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@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
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@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. -
@philosophyexp ...settled on an answer in the variation where it's not the driver, but someone at the points who makes the decision. -
@mollydot Yeah.I have the same intuition about turning but not throwing. I'm also not entirely sure why! It's interesting. :) -
@philosophyexp I don't know how much I'm affected by the 1st time I heard of it, a friend informed me that not switching was the correct ans -
@mollydot Your friend is talking nonsense. There is no correct answer. Nobody in the literature talks about correct answers. :) - 8 more replies
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