From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Mon Mar 18 2002 - 07:17:08 MST
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From: Emlyn O'regan [mailto:oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 10:52 PM
To: 'extropians@extropy.org'
Subject: RE: Research Shows Just How Much People Hate A Winner
"How would you fix this methodologically? For starters, you would make the
experimental subject make a deliberate choice to go to the burning stage,
which didn't make it feel like the "right path", but rather like a purely
optional stage.
Also, you might allow giving money to others at cost to yourself, as well as
punishment at cost to yourself. If the experimenters are correct about
burning behaviour as deliberate, the subject should seek out the punitive
option, and should choose it even in the face of being able to reward
instead.
Emlyn"
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Indeed, it would be interesting to see how many of the 'winners' give up
some of their hefty winnings. And how the other 'losers' would respond to
witnissing the winners give up some of their cash to the more harsh losers.
After all, that is what charity is all about, in essence, this expirement
made charitable donations impossible. It seems reasonable to me that if the
rich were forced by law to keep all their earnings, then the poor would
definately seek retribution even at cost to themselves. This paper and
expirement did not seem to be a very accurate represenation of reality.
Michael
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