For their examine, Yudkin et al. compiled a dataset of practically 370,000 AITA posts, together with over 11 million feedback, posted between 2018 and 2021. They used machine studying to research the language used to type all these posts into totally different classes. They relied on an current taxonomy figuring out six fundamental areas of ethical concern: equity/proportionality, emotions, hurt/offense, honesty, relational obligation, and social norms.
Yudkin et al. recognized 29 of the most typical dilemmas within the AITA dataset and grouped them in accordance with ethical theme. Two of the most typical had been relational transgression and relational omission (failure to do what was anticipated), adopted by behavioral over-reaction and unintended hurt. Cheating and deliberate misrepresentation/dishonesty had been the ethical dilemmas rated most negatively within the dataset—much more so than intentional hurt. Being judgmental was additionally evaluated very negatively, because it was usually perceived as being self-righteous or hypocritical. The least negatively evaluated dilemmas had been relational omissions.
As for relational context, dishonest and damaged promise dilemmas usually concerned romantic companions like boyfriends quite than one’s mom, for instance, whereas mother-related dilemmas extra continuously fell below relational omission. Essentially, “folks are inclined to disappoint their moms however be disenchanted by their boyfriends,” the authors wrote. Less shut relationships, against this, are usually ruled by “norms of politeness and procedural equity.” Hence, Yudkin et al. want to consider morality “much less as a set of summary rules and extra as a ‘relational toolkit,’ guiding and constraining conduct in accordance with the calls for of the social state of affairs.”
DOI: PsyArXiv, 2024. 10.31234/osf.io/5pcew (About DOIs).
Fractal scaling of timber in artwork
De grijze growth (Gray tree) by Piet Mondrian, 1911.
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Leonardo da Vinci famously invented a so-called “rule of timber” as a information to realistically depicting timber in inventive representations in accordance with their geometric proportions. In essence, in the event you took all of the branches of a given tree, folded them up and compressed them into one thing resembling a trunk, that trunk would have the identical thickness from prime to backside. That rule in flip implies a fractal branching sample, with a scaling exponent of about 2 describing the proportions between the diameters of close by boughs and the variety of boughs with a given diameter.
