I've heard there were a lot of fundamental errors with how the SPE was run and it's dumb to rely on it as a source of anything since it can't be ethically reproduced anyway.
From my understanding, it has been reproduced in more ethical ways and with better attempts at variable control... and lo and behold, they almost always show that people aren't inherently chuds or victims as the original "experiment" implies. It's not exactly rigorous (or leftist) but here's an interesting Vsauce episode where the original is discussed and then they go on to do a similar experiment.
I've heard there were a lot of fundamental errors with how the SPE was run and it's dumb to rely on it as a source of anything since it can't be ethically reproduced anyway.
Correct, couldn't really have put it better myself. The only reasonable conclusion you can draw from the SPE is that Philip Zimbardo is a monster.
From my understanding, it has been reproduced in more ethical ways and with better attempts at variable control... and lo and behold, they almost always show that people aren't inherently chuds or victims as the original "experiment" implies. It's not exactly rigorous (or leftist) but here's an interesting Vsauce episode where the original is discussed and then they go on to do a similar experiment.
The SPE is literally the example for what NOT to do in research ethics classes. Zimbardo was chasing fame.