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At first sight the scoop seems to me that the British (or at least the Independent journalist) cannot count up to three: >The researchers tested participants’
by jaclaz 9y ago
At first sight the scoop seems to me that the British (or at least the Independent journalist) cannot count up to three:
>The researchers tested participants’ feelings about inequality by giving them two Amazon gift cards in two different amounts: $25, $50, or $75.
The actual paper (maybe) clears the matter:
http://cess.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bechtel.pdf http://cess.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bechtel.pdf
>The two gift cards could take on three values, each corresponding to a different type of inequality. In the "own poorer" condition the values were $25 (own) and $75 (other). In the "own richer" condition the value of the gift cards was reversed ($75, $25). In the "equality" condition the gift cards were worth $50 each.
- pmoriarty 9y agoThe wording is ambiguous. It could be read either way. The way you're reading it, there are three different amounts: three potential amount for each of two cards. But it's perfectly correct to read it as there being only two different amounts: one final, chosen amount for each of two cards.
- jaclaz 9y ago>But it's perfectly correct to read it as there being only two different amounts: one final, chosen amount for each of two cards. Well reading only the Independent article it was not so straightforward. There are two cards and three values, as written in the original paper, it is only funny (to me) in Italian we have a saying, that goes more or less like: You did like the one that said that the four evangelists were three: Lucas and Matthew.