Btw, another reason to do it is that it'll help you get a better sense of Haidt's thinking about morality, as you need to for the first exam.
We can also use this blog post as a locus of discussion of the questions in the survey.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
yourmorals.org
As he mentions in his book, Haidt is associated with a website which does research on moral psychology, called yourmorals.org. There are a lot of questionnaires at that site, helping us explore our moral intuitions and principles. A neat feature is that we can answer questionnaires as members of a group -- in our case, this class -- and it'll tally the results and give us a sense of the moral ideas of the members of our class. Of course, it's all anonymous, and also completely optional. But all you have to do is click on this link (opens in a new window), register, and then fill out the Moral Foundations Questionnaire, which is the first one. Again, it's totally anonymous, and the questions are interesting and fun. I also think it would be neat to do it again at the end of the class to see what has changed, and that'll have more validity if you do it both times. (If you already have an account at yourmorals, click on this link instead.) Let me know if you have any questions.
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When I first had you do this assignment, I thought I'd be able to check the results to get a sense of the moral views of those in the class. But I can't find a way of doing that. Too bad!
ReplyDeleteIt works fine for me. Whenever I click on a results section I can see a grey with the average answers within the group. That is, I get the following message before the graph:
ReplyDeleteYou are a member of the group social.political.f14 and those results are shown with the Grey bar.
Since, I suppose, nobody outside of this class is going to visit the blog, I'll just share the relevant links here again:
ReplyDeleteYou are a member of the group: social.political.f14.
Your groupurl is: http://www.yourmorals.org/?grp=47fa2c71b68a542cccbdc17145e06672
In order to ensure the integrity of your group, please take care to only share this URL with people who truly are members of your group. If this URL should eventually get shared with non-members of your group, please email us (webmaster at yourmorals dt org) and we can change your group URL. Only the email address that created the group can change the group signup URL.
If some members of your group already have yourmorals accounts, they can join this group by visiting this URL:
http://www.yourmorals.org/setgraphgroup.php?grp=47fa2c71b68a542cccbdc17145e06672
See here for more instructions and sample email text.
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