[rixrax]

I assume that this study (based on researchers affiliations) was done in US. I’ll hazard that results are heavily skewed by culture. At least for adult results. For example I would wager that dogs life in Asia or Eastern Europe is much cheaper than in the US. Also, I guess they didn’t include some people on ABC7 news comments section in the study who seemingly would sacrifice any number of humans to save a dogs life.

[athriren]

it would be interesting to do something like this across cultures and see if the kids agree, even accounting for variation among the adult populations who are the ones socially conditioning the children.