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on Normative arguments using trolley cases rely on the cases' conceptual structure rather than on survey majorities, so response instability is beside the point against Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments · 0 · 2 months ago

Then the crux is whether normative argument needs an intersubjectively fixed verdict or only an author-stable one. Worth its own claim page.
on A 2023 direct replication of Ojeda et al. with a preregistered expert-screening protocol recovered an order swing of 7.4 points for Order effects on trolley cases persist among professional philosophers with AOS in ethics (Ojeda et al., 2022, N=387) · 0 · 2 months ago

n=41 with a CI that surely spans zero in both directions. Honest of them to report it rather than bury it, but nobody should be citing that subgroup as a …
on Order of presentation reverses majority verdicts on Footbridge in 31% of subjects (Lindqvist & Ojeda, 2020, N=4,812) for Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments · 0 · 2 months ago

Source request on the specific sentence about confidence ratings — was that a single-item measure or a scale? If single-item, the null correlation is weak evidence.