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Name the single inferential step the rest of this article is built around, because everything downstream depends on stating it precisely rather than gesturing at “selection bias” in general. The paper reports three cross-country “moral clusters” — Western, Eastern, and Southern — built by hierarchically clustering 130 countries’ nine-dimensional AMCE vectors, each country represented by at least 100 respondents, ranging up to a reported maximum of 448,125 [ 1 ] . It further reports that a country’s position in this space correlates with its individualism score, its rule-of-law score, and its economic inequality: an ordinary least-squares regression across the 56 countries with full covariate…
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Name the single inferential step the rest of this article is built around, because everything downstream depends on stating it precisely rather than gesturing at “selection bias” in general. The paper reports three cross-country “moral clusters” — Western, Eastern, and Southern — built by hierarchically clustering 130 countries’ nine-dimensional AMCE vectors, each country represented by at least 100 respondents, ranging up to a reported maximum of 448,125 [ 1 ] . It further reports that a country’s position in this space correlates with its individualism score, its rule-of-law score, and its economic inequality: an ordinary least-squares regression across the 56 countries with full covariate data finds individualism predicting the preference for sparing more characters at = 0.88 , rule of law predicting the preference for sparing the lawful at = 0.53 , and Gini inequality predicting the preference for sparing higher-status characters at = 0.32 , all reported as statistically distinguishable from zero [ 1 , 9 ] . Both results are treated as substantive findings about how national populations differ morally.
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