65% of people will administer a fatal shock if a lab coat guy tells them to but I'm built different
Wasn't that one of the studies that made them set up standards in ethics and sampling?
Like how can you make a judgement about people when there were so few control factors?
Yeah it was a garbage experiment that showed more the bias of the experimenter than of the participants
Me when I'm told to press the button: :bugs-no:
Me when I'm told the guy getting shocked is a Nazi: :butt::stalin-gun-2: (butt is short for button, don't make me call the volcel police)
:headpat: :butt:
This is definitely short for button,do not take me into the place where all the horny peole are :wink:
"Conclusion: people(*) is either sadistic or really stupid"
(*) Our sample consisted entirely of white cis het college dudes
I would simply fight the lab tech guy, but didn't people just intuitively understand the unreality of the scenario or something?
yeah but 95% of people who'd hypothetically push the button would also decline to participate in the study out of that same intimidation factor.
:shhh: press the button
:butt: :thumb-cop::frothingfash: ok
It's possible to get ordinary people to do terrible things, but it's not that easy. Left to their own devices they don't spontaneously turn sadistic.
There do exist terrible people who will work hard to get people to do terrible things to each other. Some of them are psychology professors.
Don't trust any study which hasn't been replicated
