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Originally Posted by Esel Mann
Sherwood, are you referring to the experiments from the OP's article or are you referring to other experiments from other similarly conducted studies?
Validation of a persons class did not appear to be addressed in any of the experiments of the OP's referring article. Normally I would not have given it another thought and would have presumed that they did proper validation of such, except for the the fact of their choice regarding the intersection experiment which lead me to wonder if they ensured validation of class at all.
Nevertheless, a thesis of this type is interesting and certainly will catch the eye of The Economist which I have found does a fairly good job at looking into such studies.
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Yes. Webb's link is the same one I referred to. As I mentioned, it appears a test subject's wealth wasn't confirmed, just alluded to in the pedestrian crossing test. Using verifiable wealthy test subjects would have been more valid in that respect. However, a person's self-assessment of social class in the other experiments is just as valid a variable. After all, it was a study on ethical behavior. The variables were persons who perceive themselves in different social strata. Let's see how The Economist interprets the study.
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