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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by keiferski on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:45AM (#22567634)
This is such a hilarious bad study that I'm surprised anyone could link to it seriously. The theft rate of ethics books are stolen from "top academic libraries" is supposed to reflect on the overall effectiveness of ethical education? Sorry, but this is an abuse of the term "scientific study."
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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by barry-cotter on Friday March 13, 2020 @11:38AM (#22568092)
Do you have any evidence that learning about ethics leads to more ethical behavior?
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Re:Brown Political Review Interviews Paul Graham by keiferski on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:28PM (#22568614)
This is an enormously complex question which depends on first answering questions like what "learning about ethics" and "ethical behavior" mean.

In any case, this paper covers most of the objections you are raising and answers them quite well, IMO:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2202/1940-1639.1613

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