Reply to Turner's comments

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In response to Turner it was argued that the maximizing outcomes assumption is plausible, his ‘continuous variable’ assumption is implausible, and his assertion that sets of pull scores yield unconfounded measures is incorrect. In addition to considering still further matters, such as the reduction of Tajfel matrices to simplified‐binary matrices, data from two new experiments were presented. One experiment reveals that, contrary to Turner's reservations, the allocution of points (or money) to one own‐group and one other‐group member versus different own‐group and different other‐group members has no differential effect. The second experiment found that Turner's assertion that Bornstein et al.'s cover story created a sense of precedence that reduced fairness is incorrect. In view of the existence of a clearly superior alternative it was concluded that further use of the Tajfel matrices would be unwise.

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