Do you plan to conduct empirical work on either of the tools you’ve released recently? Interested to hear any reasons you think this would or wouldn’t be especially valuable!
Thanks for the question Carter! Would you mind saying a bit more about the kind of empirical work you have in mind? Are you thinking about empirical research into the inputs to the tools? Or are you thinking about using the tools to conduct research on people’s views about cause prioritization? Do you have any concrete empirical projects you’d like to see WIT do?
I was imagining you could use the tools to assess people’s views about cause prioritization! In particular, I’m not sure whether you record users’ responses when they use either tool, but I’d be interested in seeing these data. It may also be valuable to recruit a more representative sample to see how most people react to moral uncertainty or otherwise engage with the tools.
Of course, I think a limitation in both these cases is that most people are pretty unfamiliar with moral uncertainty, and so a) probably a lot of people who use both tools are simply testing assumptions out and not necessarily expressing their true views, and b) I’m not sure whether recruiting people without a philosophical background would yield high-quality data. These might mean it’s not worth the effort, but I’m curious what the team’s thoughts are!
Do you plan to conduct empirical work on either of the tools you’ve released recently? Interested to hear any reasons you think this would or wouldn’t be especially valuable!
Thanks for the question Carter! Would you mind saying a bit more about the kind of empirical work you have in mind? Are you thinking about empirical research into the inputs to the tools? Or are you thinking about using the tools to conduct research on people’s views about cause prioritization? Do you have any concrete empirical projects you’d like to see WIT do?
I was imagining you could use the tools to assess people’s views about cause prioritization! In particular, I’m not sure whether you record users’ responses when they use either tool, but I’d be interested in seeing these data. It may also be valuable to recruit a more representative sample to see how most people react to moral uncertainty or otherwise engage with the tools.
Of course, I think a limitation in both these cases is that most people are pretty unfamiliar with moral uncertainty, and so a) probably a lot of people who use both tools are simply testing assumptions out and not necessarily expressing their true views, and b) I’m not sure whether recruiting people without a philosophical background would yield high-quality data. These might mean it’s not worth the effort, but I’m curious what the team’s thoughts are!