Data and Results

PREVIOUS DATA A one-way repeated-measures ANOVA determined that participants’ mean answers to the wrongness, blame, permissibility, and punishment questions differed significantly (F(3,264) = 39.51, p < .001, η2 = .24; Fig. 9). Post hoc tests using the Bonferroni correction revealed that the only significant comparisons were those between answers to the punishment question and answers to the three other questions (uncorrected ps < .001; wrongness and permissibility, uncorrected p = .38; wrongness and blame, uncorrected p = .05; blame and permissibility, uncorrected p = .34). Participants disagreed more with the claim that the morally lucky and morally unlucky agents deserved the same punishment than they disagreed with the claims that their actions were equally wrong, equally impermissible, and equally blameworthy, and we did not find any evidence that they responded differently to these three latter claims. The means for all four measures were significantly below the neutral midpoint 4 and significantly above the endpoint 1 (complete agreement), see Section 3.1 of the Appendix.