edit: actual study "Finally, we assessed the heatmaps generated by participants’ clicks on the rung they felt best represented the extent of their moral circle."

So I guessed wrong, the heatmap shows that most liberals say they care about universe-level things, but not how much they care. Other charts in the paper show liberals do care more about more-distant people than conservatives, but it's less pronounced than this.

Basic idea of the chart is right, this graph is just an exaggerated representation of it.

I believe they were given 100 points to allocate to rings and, with different scales, in this chart both conservative and liberals had a "highest allocation" of ~10 for family/friends.

I think this chart means conservatives said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" and most liberals said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" with few that said "0 0 0 ... 15 20 20 15".

Basically most liberals are normal but a vocal minority are lunatics.

edit: actual study "Finally, we assessed the heatmaps generated by participants’ clicks on the rung they felt best represented the extent of their moral circle."

So I guessed wrong, the heatmap shows that most liberals say they care about universe-level things, but not how much they care. Other charts in the paper show liberals do care more about more-distant people than conservatives, but it's less pronounced than this.

Basic idea of the chart is right, this graph is just an exaggerated representation of it.

I believe they were given 100 points to allocate to rings and, with different scales, in this chart both conservative and liberals had a "highest allocation" of ~10 for family/friends.

I think this chart means conservatives said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" and most liberals said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" with few that said "0 0 0 ... 15 20 20 15".

Basically most liberals are normal but a vocal minority are lunatics.

edit: actual study "Finally, we assessed the heatmaps generated by participants’ clicks on the rung they felt best represented the extent of their moral circle."

So I guessed wrong, the heatmap shows that most liberals say they care about universe-level things, but not how much they care. Other charts in the paper show liberals do care more about more-distanct people than conservatives, but it's less pronounced than this.

Basic idea of the chart is right, this graph is just an exaggerated representation of it.

I believe they were given 100 points to allocate to rings and, with different scales, in this chart both conservative and liberals had a "highest allocation" of ~10 for family/friends.

I think this chart means conservatives said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" and most liberals said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" with few that said "0 0 0 ... 15 20 20 15".

Basically most liberals are normal but a vocal minority are lunatics.

edit: actual study "Finally, we assessed the heatmaps generated by participants’ clicks on the rung they felt best represented the extent of their moral circle."

So I guessed wrong, the heatmap shows that most liberals say they care about universe-level things, but not how much they care. Other charts in the paper show liberals do care more about more-distance people than conservatives, but it's less pronounced than this.

Basic idea of the chart is right, this graph is just an exaggerated representation of it.

I believe they were given 100 points to allocate to rings and, with different scales, in this chart both conservative and liberals had a "highest allocation" of ~10 for family/friends.

I think this chart means conservatives said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" and most liberals said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" with few that said "0 0 0 ... 15 20 20 15".

Basically most liberals are normal but a vocal minority are lunatics.

I believe they were given 100 points to allocate to rings and with different scales, and in this chart both conservative and liberals had a "highest allocation" of ~10 for family/friends.

I think this chart means conservatives said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" and most liberals said "10 9 8 8 7 ... 1 1 1" with few that said "0 0 0 ... 15 20 20 15".

Basically most liberals are normal but a vocal minority are lunatics.