Post by marle on May 30, 2011 17:29:19 GMT -5
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Moral frameworks can be more or less parsimonious. That is to say, they can employ a wide range of principles, which vary in their application according to circumstances (less parsimonious) or they can employ a small range of principles which apply across a wide range of circumstances without modification (more parsimonious).
Your Moral Parsimony Score is 47%
As a rule of thumb, any score above 75% should be considered indicative of a parsimonious moral framework. However, perhaps a better way to think about this is to see how your score compares to other people's scores. In this respect, your score of 47% is significantly lower than the average score of 67%. This suggests that you have utilised a noticeably wider range of moral principles than average in order to make judgements about the scenarios presented in this test, and that you have tended to judge aspects of the acts and circumstances depicted here to be morally relevant that other people consider to be morally irrelevant.
Geographical Distance
Your score of 51% is significantly lower than the average score of 73% in this category. This suggests that geographical distance is a relevant factor in your moral thinking. Usually, this will mean feeling a greater moral obligation towards people located nearby than towards those who are far away.
Family Relatedness
Your score of 67% is a bit higher than the average score of 58% in this category. But nevertheless, it is low enough to suggest that issues of family relatedness are still significant in your moral thinking.
Acts and Omissions
Your score of 18% is much lower than the average score of 60% in this category. This suggests that the difference between acting and omitting to act is a relevant factor in your moral framework.
Scale
This category has to do with whether scale is a factor in making moral judgements. A simple example will make this clear. Consider a situation where it is possible to save ten lives by sacrificing one life. Is there a moral difference between this choice and one where the numbers of lives involved are different but proportional - for example, saving 100 lives by sacrificing ten? In this category then, the idea is to determine whether moral principles are applied without modification or qualification when you're dealing with sets of circumstances that differ only in their scale, as in the sense described above. Your score of 51% is significantly lower than the average score of 75% in this category. This suggests that scale, as it is described above, is an important consideration in your moral thinking.
Moral frameworks can be more or less parsimonious. That is to say, they can employ a wide range of principles, which vary in their application according to circumstances (less parsimonious) or they can employ a small range of principles which apply across a wide range of circumstances without modification (more parsimonious).
Your Moral Parsimony Score is 47%
As a rule of thumb, any score above 75% should be considered indicative of a parsimonious moral framework. However, perhaps a better way to think about this is to see how your score compares to other people's scores. In this respect, your score of 47% is significantly lower than the average score of 67%. This suggests that you have utilised a noticeably wider range of moral principles than average in order to make judgements about the scenarios presented in this test, and that you have tended to judge aspects of the acts and circumstances depicted here to be morally relevant that other people consider to be morally irrelevant.
Geographical Distance
Your score of 51% is significantly lower than the average score of 73% in this category. This suggests that geographical distance is a relevant factor in your moral thinking. Usually, this will mean feeling a greater moral obligation towards people located nearby than towards those who are far away.
Family Relatedness
Your score of 67% is a bit higher than the average score of 58% in this category. But nevertheless, it is low enough to suggest that issues of family relatedness are still significant in your moral thinking.
Acts and Omissions
Your score of 18% is much lower than the average score of 60% in this category. This suggests that the difference between acting and omitting to act is a relevant factor in your moral framework.
Scale
This category has to do with whether scale is a factor in making moral judgements. A simple example will make this clear. Consider a situation where it is possible to save ten lives by sacrificing one life. Is there a moral difference between this choice and one where the numbers of lives involved are different but proportional - for example, saving 100 lives by sacrificing ten? In this category then, the idea is to determine whether moral principles are applied without modification or qualification when you're dealing with sets of circumstances that differ only in their scale, as in the sense described above. Your score of 51% is significantly lower than the average score of 75% in this category. This suggests that scale, as it is described above, is an important consideration in your moral thinking.