I address your concerns in the last paragraph of my previous post. Designing a good experiment is vital. Indeed setting it up will involve some artificialness, but I think there should be an apropos workaround for that.
Preferrably the experiment should be triple-blind but in this case that’s going to be impossible - you know what’s being tested. The other subjects don’t know or needn’t know. After you’ve collected the data, you can give it to another party for statistical analysis. Thesw folk needn’t know too. That is to say, a double-blind experiment seems quite feasible.
Sorry, I got carried away with my calculations, but it’s that phase in an experiment that interests me.
I’ve noticed that “…it’s this particular stage of the experiment that interests you,” but you’re so interested in it that—excuse me—you stubbornly refuse to acknowledge my main question, which I’m asking you for the second time: how can you realistically conduct an experiment—not for 25 days, but even just one day—during which you perform at least a dozen different actions while interacting with people, playing the role of a selfish person? The next day—in the role of an altruist. Try to describe how you actually envision this, including a “workaround”
You also didn’t answer who the “other” participants in the experiment are. And now there’s also “the other side.” It seems to me that you’re trying to artificially force your experiment to fit our situation, which isn’t really suitable for it.
I apologize if I may have misunderstood the mechanics of the experiment.
Hey, friend!
You advised me to conduct an experiment on the topic of selfishness versus altruism. We haven’t been able to carry out your version of the experiment yet, and you suggested we look for other, more suitable options. I’ve had one interesting idea in mind for a while now, and if you don’t mind, let’s carry it out together. It seems to be much simpler and more accessible, and it doesn’t require a lab either. But first, I’d like to ask you to answer one question of mine. After that, I’ll tell you how to conduct it in literally 10 minutes.
My question is this: Do you agree with my formulation of the Law of Personal Interest, which, as a reminder, goes like this:
“Most people, in most situations, are guided by personal interest and personal gain”?
You can answer however you like: with a simple “Yes” or “No,” with comments, or in any other way. Preferably with comments. After that, we’ll be able to conduct my experiment. And perhaps you’ll be able to apply your method of processing the information obtained here? Although, to do that, we’d probably need to involve a significant number of participants, which it seems we could manage to do within the framework of our Philosophy Forum, provided we make the necessary preparations.
By the way, I think this experiment would be interesting to other participants in the discussion of my topics as well. If you agree, please reply, and then we’ll continue