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=== Survey data === The trolley problem has been the subject of many surveys in which about 90% of respondents have chosen to kill the one and save the five.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://healthland.time.com/2011/12/05/would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-five-new-research-on-a-classic-debate/|title='Trolley Problem': Virtual-Reality Test for Moral Dilemma β TIME.com|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> If the situation is modified where the one sacrificed for the five was a relative or romantic partner, respondents are much less likely to be willing to sacrifice the one life.<ref>{{cite journal |author=April Bleske-Rechek |author2=Lyndsay A. Nelson |author3=Jonathan P. Baker |author4=Mark W. Remiker |author5=Sarah J. Brandt|title=Evolution and the trolley problem: People save five over one unless the one is young, genetically related, or a romantic partner |url=http://137.140.1.71/jsec/articles/volume4/issue3/bleskefinal.pdf |journal=Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411182922/http://137.140.1.71/jsec/articles/volume4/issue3/bleskefinal.pdf |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=115β127 |year=2010|doi=10.1037/h0099295 |archive-date=2012-04-11 }}</ref> A 2009 survey by David Bourget and [[David Chalmers]] shows that 68% of professional philosophers would switch (sacrifice the one individual to save five lives) in the case of the trolley problem, 8% would not switch, and the remaining 24% had another view or could not answer.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bourget|first1=David|last2=Chalmers|first2=David J.|year=2013|title=What do Philosophers believe?|url=http://philpapers.org/archive/BOUWDP|access-date=11 May 2013}}</ref>
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