I’m extra-medium
So I had a little go at the BBC Lab’s morality test, a large-scale experiment which is designed to try to formulate a snapshot of the morality of modern Britain. Who wants to take a guess at what turned out to be my most prominent moral dimension?
Click below to find out!
Of course! Full marks to everyone, there – it’s my low desire to avoid! This is, in fact, pretty true. I more or less always want to interact with people for myself, rather than make pre-judgements. (Post-judgements are another matter entirely.) There are exceptions to this rule, naturally – I’m only human, and some people whose actions put them beyond all understanding or hope of redemption, eg Big Brother contestants or viewers, I’ll condemn out of hand and do my level best to stay away from.
But generally, and probably surprisingly to anyone who reads the stuff I write, I go out of my way to give everyone a chance, because I like to understand how things work and that usually involves understanding the people who do those things.
Live and let live, that’s me.
You can see my full results here. [EDIT: No you can’t. Stupid lying BBC.] Why not have a go yourself? You could even enter deliberately wrong answers for a laugh, if you’re the sort of pathetic dickstain on humanity who really needs to die horribly in a chemical fire. Lucky they didn’t have a question on that, eh chums?
There are a few psychometric tests that have 'did you answer these questions honestly' as a question at the end.
I think it's to weed out rogue AIs that are trying to pass as human.
I hate you for getting me to do this. It scores 4 wrongingness, 5 disgusts, 3.2 angries and 8 avoids. And … hm. I think 4 punishments.
I basically got "lower than average" everything too, though my lowest was anger and the rest were about the same. What news item did you get? Mine was about the potentially life-shortening effects of not doing good things when we felt we should have, and how they can be assuaged by immediately going out and doing something else that's good instead. Which was a bit weird.
I got one about a budget crisis resulting in public sector workers not being paid for months. Didn't even realise there were options.
Oh man. I've just realised that the link provided by the BBC for "share your results with friends" actually doesn't link anyone else to your results at all, it just lets you check them yourself by re-entering your password? What's the point of that? IT MAKES ME DISGUSTED AND ANGRY.
Odd. Apparently I'm not disgusted by things, except for stepping in dog shit, don't get particularly angry about phoney-baloney journalists spouting rubbish about immigration, don't find it particularly wrong if some berk down on his luck blows all of his money on gambling – foolish, yes, but not "wrong" – don't tend to avoid people and don't think locking people up for being incompetent is particularly useful.
And, apparently, Public Sector workers can go ram it.
I'm very avoidant. Not one for confrontation me. My anger is low though. I got a story about unseasonally nice weather. Which made me angry. Which I think it wasn't supposed to.
I've got a high desire to avoid things that require registration.
I don't understand the part where it accused me of caring more about corporations than about my friends, based on my responses about things happening to my friends. But none of the questions even implied they were about people I knew. That's partly why my anger and avoidance scores were so low – why would I get angry about someone I've never met and know nothing else about just because they wore an offensive hat or whatever?
No, I don't typically care if a corporation is ripped off, but I acknowledge that it's more wrong to commit corporate fraud than it is to buy some golf clubs you never use. It's also more disgusting, because on a moral level it's a betrayal, whereas being a lazy-arse is benign. Hmph.
Really could have done with more explanation of what it was asking, to be honest.
Looks like you failed the human test , report to Dignitas at your convenience.
This comment was from 2011…?
Impressive thread necromancy there!
Something wrong in anything to do with the BBC has a considered morality within it.
Tie them to a chair, put them under the spotlight and get them to say the word genocide.