It’s easy to ask a vast range of questions—a lot harder to get them all answered. Data isn’t free. He targeted his data acquisition to modalities he had some evidence for. I haven’t followed his work in detail, but I’d guess that he had other trial modalities that didn’t pan out.
Anyone know anything about other candidate modalities he looked at?
I didn’t mean to imply that he has totally characterized all the pattern matching involved in morality, and I doubt he has claimed that either. When confronted with new evidence—likely some squawking from libertarians—he updated his model. I’d expect him to do the same if someone came up with evidence for another moral modality.
He’s started the reductionist enterprise on morality as it exists. It’s about time someone did.
The impression I get from reading his research is that he came at it from an anthropological background (his advisor, IIRC, was an anthropologist).
My worry is that he is making the same error that early personality tests (Myers-Briggs, for instance) made; yes, they tested something, but not necessarily what they thought they were testing. Statistical tools are more powerful now, but I’m not sure they protect against this sort of error. As others have pointed out, liberals do have a strong sense of the sacred (in the environmental, and in food in particular); Haidt’s test doesn’t measure this and doesn’t have any way of detecting that this is missing.
It’s easy to ask a vast range of questions—a lot harder to get them all answered. Data isn’t free. He targeted his data acquisition to modalities he had some evidence for. I haven’t followed his work in detail, but I’d guess that he had other trial modalities that didn’t pan out.
Anyone know anything about other candidate modalities he looked at?
I didn’t mean to imply that he has totally characterized all the pattern matching involved in morality, and I doubt he has claimed that either. When confronted with new evidence—likely some squawking from libertarians—he updated his model. I’d expect him to do the same if someone came up with evidence for another moral modality.
He’s started the reductionist enterprise on morality as it exists. It’s about time someone did.
The impression I get from reading his research is that he came at it from an anthropological background (his advisor, IIRC, was an anthropologist).
My worry is that he is making the same error that early personality tests (Myers-Briggs, for instance) made; yes, they tested something, but not necessarily what they thought they were testing. Statistical tools are more powerful now, but I’m not sure they protect against this sort of error. As others have pointed out, liberals do have a strong sense of the sacred (in the environmental, and in food in particular); Haidt’s test doesn’t measure this and doesn’t have any way of detecting that this is missing.