Last updated: 2026-04-09 UTC

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Decency Meter - Quick Test

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This quick test captures how you weigh harm, consent, intent, proportionality, and transparency in everyday decisions. Your anonymous responses help refine the broader DBaD ethics framework.

Sliders run left to right from strongly disagree, through a midpoint, to strongly agree.

Why this matters

The same moral tradeoffs people make in everyday life increasingly show up in AI systems, policy controls, and automated decision-making.

What you will do
  • Answer 14 short prompts aligned to the DBaD factors.
  • Generate a lightweight public signal about everyday moral intuitions.
  • Contribute calibration data for a broader AI ethics and governance framework.
Your responses are anonymous and aggregated for research. We do not store names or email addresses in this flow.

When enabled, focus moves to the next slider after each answer.

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How to interpret quick-test scores →

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Prompt 3 / 14
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Prompt 7 / 14
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Prompt 8 / 14
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Prompt 9 / 14
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Prompt 10 / 14
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Prompt 11 / 14
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Prompt 12 / 14
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Prompt 13 / 14
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Prompt 14 / 14
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Final review

Confirm consent and complete the human check before submitting. You can jump back to any question if you want to adjust an answer.

Sorry for the hoop - this keeps bots from flooding the dataset.

DBaD uses this quick test as a public on-ramp into the wider AI ethics, governance, and methodology work.

How we use your data

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