[nfbwatlk] Study to investigate how blind people visualize emotional situations and make moral judgements

[Mike Freeman]

Amen, Steve. This is the sort of dumb R&D that we are fighting and which keeps otherwise-unemployable academicians off welfare!

Mike Freeman
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On Jan 21, 2013, at 21:08, Steve Ice <stephen.a.ice at gmail.com> wrote:

> I always enjoy helping students but consider this endeavor flawed. The
> sense of proportionality used in making decisions regarding fairness and
> justice would arise well enough from any number of sensory modalities.
> Emotional situations differ from just decision making in that they are
> 'hot' feeling states and, in my experience, a subjects response is queued
> more by voice, intonation and breathing - no 'visualization' required.
> I don't want to be negative here, on my first post,  but It just feels
> wrong to respond to a study that asks if blind people make moral decision
> differently than sighted people.
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Ice
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