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GSLeloo
10-13-2003, 12:56 PM
So once again, we were discussing something interesting in my human behavior class.

We were watching a documentation of an experiment done in Yale back in the 60's. In it, a man was a "teacher" while the other was the "Student". The teacher was told that the experiment was to test memory capacity.

They were put in separate rooms and couldn't see each other, only hear each other through a speaker. For every answer that the student had wrong, the teacher had to press a button to electrically shock them, increasing the voltage for each wrong answer.

After every volt the student would make a noise of pain and after 105 volts he would yell that he wanted out and no longer wanted to do the experiment. The scientist leading the experiment would tell the teacher to continue despite the students cries.

Of 80 people, 40 of them continued until the very end, 450 volts, despite the fact that after about 300 there was no response from the student anymore. Now, no one was actually being shocked and the student was a member of the research project.

What they were testing was this, would a human knowingly hurt another human just because someone with authority over them told them to continue. And as I said, 50% of the people in the experiment continued up until the end. So what do you think?

Kurili
10-13-2003, 01:34 PM
Have you studied Nazi Germany yet? Or any of a number of similar? "I was just doing my job." was the excuse given by many people, and to them, it was probably the truth.

Acolyte Kurili

StrayRogue
10-13-2003, 01:46 PM
Thats a very famous test Leloo. The screams are recorded. A good percentage of people even keep the button pressed after the screaming stops, as that is what they are told to do. What makes people do this? Blind faifth, and indoctrination. You can right it off as just "doing there job", but I'm willing to bet 40% is a low number. Most people are mindless idiots, they do do what they are told.

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