gut belief in the concept starting at a young age.

Evidence: Experimental philosophers

have discovered by querying adults in different cultures, including Hong Kong, India,

Colombia and the United States. Whatever their cultural differences, people tend to reject the

notion that they live in a deterministic world without free will.

Strengths: They did the experiment in various places with multiple people.

Weaknesses: Since it is a big research, errors might have happened if there is some kind of misunderstanding between researchers

evidence: In one experiment, some people read a passage from Francis Crick, the moleculer biologist, asserting that free will is a quint old notion no longer taken seriously by intellectuals, especially not psychologists and neuroscientists.

weakness: just a lab test

strength: scientific

claim 2: Free will guides people’s choices toward being more moral and better performers

e: day-labor research

w: small scale research

s: proper methodology

c3: in real life people are more compatibilists

e: bill’s murder story

w: presupposes determinism

s:simulates real life moral decision making

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Claim: The higher the workers scored on the scale of belief in free will, the better their ratings on the job.

Evidence: People who don’t believe in free will tend to goof around at work.

Strongness: They added worker’s emotions but it didn’t change the result.

Weakness: Evidence is not enough to prove they did their work better

Belief in free will leads to a greater life satisfaction, more energy, and better work performances.

Evidence:

The study done by Dr.Vohs along with the team of psychologists led by Tyler F. Stillman: questionnaires.

Strengths:

The higher the workers scored on the scale of belief in free will, the better their ratings on the job.

Weaknesses:

None of these factors is a reliable predictor of their actual performance on the job, as rated by employee’s supervisors.

Claim 2:

The belief of free will is recognised universally, regardless of the culture context.

Evidence:

Experiment of querying adults in different cultures, such as Hong Kong, India, Colombia, and the United States.

Strengths:

Experiments were held in many different countries, so they are not attached to one specific culture. Consequently, international consensus provides more reliability that the existence of free will is present.

Weaknesses:

The lack of information about the country list, which is overgeneralised idea.

Strength: These are different situations that can be compared to see the differences.

Weakness:All the incidents are just hypothetical. Results may vary if these incidents actually happened.

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When people doubt free will, they do worse on their jobs and are less honest.

EVIDENCE

Study done by Dr. Vohs along with psychologists led by Tyler F. Stillman.

STRENGTHS

Studies of their personal lives showed other factors weren’t a reliable predictor of their performance on the job. The higher the workers scored on the scale of belief in free will, the better their ratings on the job.

WEAKNESSES

They have limited test subjects in this research. The fact that these workers are day-labor employees might have affected the study.

e: Experiments conducted by Dr. Vohs and Dr. Schooler

s:Experiments reflecting real life

w:insufficient number of people to make a general judgement

Evident: People reading a passage from Francis Crick,the molecular biologist,strongly claiming free will is a glory old term no longer considered as crucial bu intellectual, in particular not psychologists and neuroscientists.

Weaknesses: On the other hand, when compered with a control group reading different passage from Crick these people expressed more skepticism about free will and immediatelly cut themselves some moral slack during a math test.

Claim: When people doubt free will, they do worse at their jobs and are less honest.

Evidence: The experiment done by Francis Crick.

Strenghts: There were additional researches done.

Weaknesses: The researches were not enough in terms of arguments given to them in order for them to cheat.