Determinism makes one more likely to be cheater, pumpkin eater
A series of studies by psychologists has found that students exposed to articles undermining the concept of free will were more likely to cheat than their control-group counterparts. It’s not exactly shocking that people feel less responsible for their actions after being told that every choice they make has already been decided by their subconscious, but the actual numbers are eye-opening; in the first test, the group that read the anti-free will article beforehand was 45 percent more likely to cheat. Other variables found to increase cheating were:
- Sitting in a cramped lecture hall approximately 2 inches away from that smart Asian kid
- Dollar well-drink specials
- Secular, atheist agenda/ACLU/George Soros
- Teacher just not “satisfying your needs” anymore
- Having a GTF who can’t tell his ass from a hole in the ground
- Intense dislike of controlled studies
A tip o’ the hat to Megan McArdle, who also just wrote a post mulling over whether or not she would transfer her consciousness into a robot.
