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The experiment requires that you continue (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Milligram experiment is almost as big a humbug as the Stanford prison experiment.

When the study was run without a "scientist", but instead a policeman or military officer, the participants who went full voltage dropped from 90+% compliance to 90+% refusal. This completely contradicts the supposed "findings" that people uncritically obey authority.

After the war, a whole cottage industry of psychologists and philosophers tried to answer why it was that ordinary Germans could participate in horror. Simple, but wrong explanations like "humans obey authority uncritically" were in high demand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not relevant to the study, more relevant to your point: humans begrudgingly obey authority when threatened.