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Request for help: I'm looking for a study on scope insensitivity to use in one of my college entrance essays. If I recall it correctly, the study showed something like, when asked how much people would pay save one girl of a group of eight in a tribe from a disease, it was over double what people would pay to save all eight.
I checked the standard scope insensitivity post, and tried my google-fu, but can't remember where I originally heard it.
The one you refer to was mentioned in http://lesswrong.com/lw/n9/the_intuitions_behind_utilitarianism/:
Link is dead, but the article is here http://foreignpolicy.com/2007/03/13/numbed-by-numbers/.
The original study seems to be Kogut and Ritov, 2005. I found a pdf through Google scholar search (always a good way to find studies) over here.
Thank you very much :-)