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It's not the numbers but rather the group to which the numbers belong. For instance, each case in the control group is being treated just like every other member in the control group; furthermore, each case in the experimental group is treated like each case in the experimental group. You might agree with me if you didn't compare treatment across groups. Looking at intragroup treatment, all are treated the same.That sounds really odd to me. I didn't expect that you would say that all tree cases are cases of Jack's being fair.
Now maybe the monkeys were being treated fairly by that understanding of the term. For example, let's say that the researchers said that monkeys #1, #2, and #3 were to be given cucumbers as rewards, but monkeys #4, #5 and #6 were to be given grapes (a much better reward). Since they're treating monkeys with different numbers differently, they're treating different cases differently, so where is the unfairness?
Motivated by the "friend" example, how about the following?
d. Jack serves everyone, but if they pay in cash and at least the serial number of one of the dollar bills of greatest denomination they use, has two sevens, or four fours, and they're not friends of Jack's, then he punches them in the face.
Is he not treating like cases alike, and unlike cases alike?
I'm trying to figure out how broad your conception of "like" and "unlike" is.
If I sit back and decide to splash water on every other unsuspecting person that walks through my door, I'm being fair until I mess up the order and skip the girl I decided not to splash water on.