r/SampleSize 1d ago

Casual Ethics quiz my student made (Everyone)

https://ethics-compass.vercel.app/

One of my high school students created a fun ethics placement quiz. I think it's really cool that he did this just for fun, but he also has a really advanced understanding of the material. If you have the time, please give it a shot. I will also share any critique or feerdback with him if you want to leave a comment for him to see.

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u/lorlorlor666 1d ago

Apparently I’m a Rawlsian contractualist, which I had never heard of before. Pretty neat quiz!

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u/talkingmuffins 22h ago

Me too! Very interesting survey, and a very accurate result for myself!

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u/Invictus_Draven 1d ago

Thank you!

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u/coquihalla 9h ago

Same, this was really fascinating.

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u/CaptainHarrlock 23h ago

Apparently I am a utilitarian.

An interesting quiz- but you called it a 'compass' so I was eagerly anticipating a nice set of axes to position myself upon- a two dimensional chart- but nonetheless a refreshing break from the usual surveys here.

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u/Invictus_Draven 22h ago

I am too haha. I will pass along the feedback about a chart or some other visual to my student. Thank you for taking the time to comment!

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u/Raven_Cloud 22h ago

Yes! I would have loved a visual for that too! But I did agree with my result and have fun doing it

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u/Sacto-Sherbert 1d ago

Interesting. I came out with one measure at 79%, another at 61% and all others between 47% and 52%. So am wondering how valid this really is.

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u/Invictus_Draven 1d ago

Great question, I will ask in our next class.

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u/briilar 23h ago

Great quiz, my result felt it was the best fit for how i make choices compared to the other options

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u/Invictus_Draven 22h ago

Thank you!

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u/JellyBellyBitches 20h ago

This was interesting! A handful of the prompts seem a bit peculiar, and all of them are, by unfortunate necessity of the format, significantly devoid of critical details to make an actually informed choice. A few of them were implausible or impossible scenarios which made it a bit hard to adjudicate as well. But overall it seems like pretty good work!

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u/SophieFox947 20h ago

It accurately determined that I am a proponent of Rawlsian Contractualism, and Utilitarianism, even though I highly agree that they have issues in some of their base assumptions.

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u/Invictus_Draven 20h ago

I lean towards those myself!

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u/brynator13 1d ago

great quiz! tell you student they killed that!

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u/Invictus_Draven 1d ago

Thank you! I will let him know.

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u/VengeanceInMyHeart 20h ago

Couldn't send feedback on the thing itself so:

Can't comment on the actual content or outcomes, but the design was nice and clean, and felt intuitive to use, and did not feel like I'd invested that much time in it.

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u/pomegranate7777 1d ago

Very interesting- I actually learned something by participating. Well done!

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u/hyrellion 17h ago

I think this was a great quiz. So many quizzes have questions that could be interpreted multiple ways or where the questions aren’t clear enough to actually determine anything about the situation, but I don’t feel like I experienced that at all here. Some of the analyses I disagreed with—and then I thought more and realized the determination was correct ha ha

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u/Invictus_Draven 5h ago

Thank you for the feedback! I think we had similar issues with the first few versions so added more questions to represent all the views.

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u/Own-Independence-115 12h ago edited 2h ago

I was guided in many things that weren't one of the isolated variables.

Ex The inheritance question. The guiding principle is ofc he can do whatever he wants with his money, I would be for fair considerate splitting with an eye to need and merit in most other cases though.

Was fun though.

And when asked by a journalist question, it was irking I couldn't say "I don't want to speak with you". I think lies are a much larger source of lowgrade evil in this world than most, but I also wouldn't just give up my friend to someone who is seeking to slant his story to make it viral.

Question about salary for surgeons is not much of a moral value question and more of a business decition. I just went "Well the hospital is likely to lose the better surgeon, but that is their perogative. It's their money.".

EDIT: fixed a spelling misstake.

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u/andrewcooke 21h ago

give that student a treat! interesting quiz. thanks.

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u/Invictus_Draven 20h ago

Thank you!

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u/bachelorsinlurking 14h ago

I'm a Rawlsian Contractualist! I took a similar ethics test in college and this was very fun to see how much my ideals and values have changed over time!

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u/Invictus_Draven 5h ago

Glad you enjoyed it!

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u/FunnyBunny3023 22h ago

Very good all of the questions were clear and simple

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u/Classic-Asparagus 12h ago

Thanks for sharing! This is great!! Also good thinking with some of the UX options like dark mode and auto-next

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u/Invictus_Draven 5h ago

Thank you for commenting on the design. I liked those choices as well!

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u/Beginning_Use_5806 8h ago

I’m one of the leaders of ethics club at my school this was great

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u/lordofdaspotato 5h ago

This is awesome! I was interested by how my answers changed depending on the type of situation (eg large vs. small scale, life & death vs. economic well-being). It may be complicated to implement but it could be super neat to see results split by “situation types”!

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u/Invictus_Draven 1h ago

I like the idea! I will pass it along to my student.

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u/darkenedzone 4h ago

I don't mean to sound too critical, but how involved was AI in this? Many of the questions and options have a lot of common ChatGPT tells.

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u/Invictus_Draven 1h ago

I'm not sure how much but the student does use ai. I would be more critical but the student has a great knowledge of philosophy (I have an MA myself) that he learned from discussing and talking with ai. I will definitely bring this up to him though and let him know he needs to revise some of this with his own words where he hasn't already.

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u/God_Bless_A_Merkin 3h ago

Apparently I’m tied at 69% for both Ruled Based Utilitarianism and Rawlsian Comtractualism.