values survey Apparently I'm unusual. I care more about achievement than liberals or conservatives, but I care less about everything else!
Haha, I also care less about everything else on everything (except self-direction).
I'm also interested to hear how people scored on the meaning of life
and causality. (as you see, my attributions on context are highest, which I suspect the same to be for most LWers). I'm a heavy reader on behavioral genetics research (and have Attention Deficit Disorder myself), so my ratings on ability and effort tend to be low.
Moral foundations for sacredness: average amount of money
Jonathan Haidt, a professor at UVA, runs an online lab with quizzes that will compare your moral values to the rest of the population. I have found the test results useful for avoiding the typical mind fallacy. When someone disagrees with me on a belief/opinion I feel certain about, it's often difficult to tease apart how much of this disagreement stems from them not "getting it", and how much stems from them having a different fundamental value system. One of the tests alerted me that I am an outlier in certain aspects of how I judge morality (green = me; blue = liberals; red = conservatives):
Another benefit of these quizzes is that they can point out potential blind spots. For example, one quiz asks for opinions about punishment for crimes. If I discover I'm an outlier w.r.t. the population, I should reconsider whether my opinions are based on solid evidence (or did I see one study that found tit-for-tat punishment effective in a certain context, and take that as gospel?).
Extra reading: Haidt wrote a WSJ article last month that applied the learnings of these moral quizzes to better understanding the Tea Party.