A study of ethicists finds they’re no more ethical than the rest of us

For example, ethicists on average said a professor should donate 6.9% of their annual income to charity per year, versus non-philosophers’ recommendation of 4.6%, and other philosophers’ suggestion of 5.1%. But when it came to following through on this moral guidance, there was no gap: Ethicists reported donating 4.6% of their annual salary to charity in the past year, compared to non-ethicist philosophers’ 4.6% and non-philosophers’ 4.4%. The paper replicated a 2013 study by Eric Schwitzgebel, philosophy professor at University of California, Riverside, and Joshu Rust, philosophy professor at Stetson University, which found that ethicists were similarly unlikely to behave more morally than others.

Source: qz.com