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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 31 March 2015 09:42:39PM 1 point [-]

I'm considering to make a poll post for value judgements. Questions would include the trolly one, comparison of saving a human life vs. 10, 1000, a million animals (of differnent kinds) and others. has this been done? Where? Do you have recommendations for such?

I googled for empirical ethics but didn't turn up anything that asking for value judgements online. Do you know anything about this?

My interest was spurred by a discussion that left this part out. My motivation is mainly to get some (non-representative) sample of such value judgements. Could be interesting for limits on the breath of the complexity of value question.

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 April 2015 12:23:58PM 3 points [-]

There's the World Value survey: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 01 April 2015 01:51:12PM 2 points [-]

Interesting site. And interesting map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglehart%E2%80%93Welzel_cultural_map_of_the_world I wouldn't have expected such a clustering.

The questions asked in that surveys include only a small fraction of the ethical decisions I have in mind. Some which ask for specific choices are included e.g. the sections "Justified: *" and "Would not like to have as neighbors: *".

But actually I didn't mean an online viewer for results but and online survey.