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Weird title, if a dust storm really hits Mars, as opposed to a dust storm merely brewing on Mars, the whole solar system would likely be affected. Regardless of how big the molecular cloud would be, the fact that an interstellar gas cloud is hitting Mars is the bigger news!
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Amazing text!
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Allende won the Presidency with 36% of the vote in a three horse race.
Allende won with 37% and a 83% turnout, Nixon won with 43% and a 62% turnout, giving Allende 30% of the popular vote and Nixon 27 %.
I'm not sure what this tells us about Nixons right to have Allende deposed though.
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Sounds like Jimenez found the latest trick google uses to get people to submit to tracking.
I don't think this is about creating realistic scenarios, but about finding out what people take into consideration when making moral judgements. The experiment seems to be designed to gather as many such preferences as possible.
The hope must be that if people consistently prefer saving the life of young people in this made up scenario they will have similar preferences in a more realistic scenario. Of course weather such a generalization holds will have to be confirmed by further studies. But this seems like a good first step to explore moral decisions more.
This study will learn things about how a biased sample of the population answer choices in a simple game depending on the context given; extrapolation from that basis to anything wider, for example the notion that the players view these choices as "moral" requires far more work. It is well known that people use games for escapism, so it does not seem straightforward that the decisions they make in a game always map cleanly to their real opinions just because you put "moral" in the title of the game.
Its also worth keeping in mind that moral decisions have been explored for quite some time, and the novelty here is mainly the mode with which the population is sampled.
I am no expert at history, however, during the 1930's Henry Ford did something similar to introduce the Flathead V8. Factories were closed, hundreds of thousands made unemployed, then, in secret, Ford worked on the V8 and the factory to make the new cars. When he was ready the gates opened and new hires were made.