06-12-2005, 06:09 PM
Occhidiangela,Jun 12 2005, 08:12 AM Wrote:Trust in authority figures explains a lot about the shock experiment, and trust in scientists. That test was a fine practical joke, but if you look at how it was set up, it was a fraud. The subjects were lured in under completely false pretenses.They couldn't exactly have done this by saying, "Hey, we're going to find out how far a person will shock someone when directed to do so by an authority figure", because then people would have had that in mind, and likely rebelled against them just because. Or perhaps they would have shocked them anyway, assuming that it was a scam. Perhaps this would be another experiment needed to be conducted. :wacko:
Moral? Don't trust scientists any further than you trust anyone else. They are human too.
Occhi
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