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[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 143 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 86 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You gotta be sure, you know? Does it actually shock you? How bad does it hurt? Cant be too dangerous, right? Maybe you'll even like it, you won't know for sure unless you hit the button.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 66 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Also: does it only work once?

[–] TealTallMachine@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also, can i get used to it after 4-5 more times?

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can I build up an immunity to electrocution?

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How could you choose avoiding a little pain over understanding a magic lightning machine?

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It's not like they were going to apply a shock that would do damage. Fuck it.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

100% what went through my head when I asked myself if I would also do it.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 128 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

When I was in grad school, a bunch of us were at the house of a guy with an invisible fence for his dog. Someone wondered if it was cruel and that led to each of the grad students there except me putting on the dog's collar and then crossing the fence. (The consensus was that it really hurts, but it isn't agonizing.) At the time I knew that not shocking myself was, in some sense, the smart thing to do, but in retrospect I regret being a boring dork.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I once voluntarily shocked myself with a dog collar at a party. It was kind of fun, so I did it about 20 more times and shocked other people with it too. In my defense, I was drunk.

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's a whole sexual kink associated with those collars. I'm just sayin'

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren't wearing shoes. Just FYI.

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[–] smort@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We would sit around the fire pit taking turns zapping ourselves with the electric fly swatter. Good times!

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[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 56 points 5 months ago

I'd love to be judgemental about this, but I'd absolutely be in that 25% of women who did it too.

[–] Shanedino@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The best part is "at least one". What's the breakdown of more than one shock?

[–] Shanedino@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] thessnake03@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to need the graph above that. How many shocked themselves to get aroused?

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Bored people give themselves a bunch of painful shocks and when that isn't enough to feel alive they increase the amperage of the shocks. Really the perfect metaphor of all of us using doomscrolling on social media.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If I’m reading this right, the average bored person shocked themselves every 2 minutes?

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[–] kubica@fedia.io 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If I know that I'm in an experiment then I must gather information about the experiment.

[–] Zahtu@feddit.org 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, totally right. Although I would like to know, whether the instructor giving them the 'this button is for shocking yourself' was a woman or a men. Just ensuring not for any Interviewer bias. ...

Anyway, I am recruiting some people for a unique experiment to test something out.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 38 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I want to see the percentage who gave themselves more than one. They're the real heroes of this study.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

One guy shocked himself 190 times

[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 18 points 5 months ago

That guy was running his own study. “How many times can I shock myself before I breach the ethical limits of the study and they cut the session short”.

He underestimated their resolve though, clearly.

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[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

All of these participants had received a sample of the shock and reported that they would pay to avoid being shocked again.

From: https://news.virginia.edu/content/doing-something-better-doing-nothing-most-people-study-shows , so the chart is actually measuring the second shock.

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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 36 points 5 months ago

I licked a 9 volt from the beeping smoke detector the other day to see if it was dead. Nobody was around to impress and it wasn't for fun, just wanted a quick result.

Would probably shock myself if stuck alone for 15 mins too. Heck, I find those shocking handle games to be hilarious fun.

Note: have ADHD which may or may not be related since I keep forgetting how much getting shocked hurts. Burns leave a mark and are more memorable so I wouldn't touch anything hot for fun.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Ow, that was painful. What would happen if I press the button again?"

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Not so bad now that I'm expecting it! Wonder if the third time is even less."

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

I'd zap my dick and give them a whole new category for their charts!

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Can't believe they shocked themselves :o

Meanwhile millenials:

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Trying to figure out what that is.

(In a bad millennial. My mind went to some sort of weird sex toy.)

[–] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 10 points 5 months ago

Gen X here and I didn't know it wasn't a sex toy until I saw your comment.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

We just want to feel something, OK?

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[–] JoseALerma@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

'Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well, that's because he's a guy,

— Once-ler, 2012

[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

While I know that's not how stats work, I find it completely correct to belive that one women gave herself a shock from 4 participants, and 70 men did.

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I would like to see a study done with several groups:

  1. People who read multiple books each year
  2. People who watch lots of video essays
  3. People who listen to podcasts
  4. People who prefer short-form content such as TikTok
  5. Veterans
  6. Educators, such as teachers or professors
  7. Librarians
  8. A control group composed of people who either do not fit into the other categories

I've heard a lot of people claiming some of these groups are better than others of these groups, but I'm rooting for a null result.

[–] Pyro 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I would do it in the first 5 minutes.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd wait until they're out of the room just to be polite, but that's it

[–] tinyVoltron@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Screw that. I'd shock myself while they explained it just to make sure they weren't lying.

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[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm really surprised no one here said they would pull down their pants and start violently jerking off while intently staring at the researchers through the one-way window thing.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 5 months ago

Where is the shock happening? I might be pressing the button a lot if it's to the prostate.

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?

[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.

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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 10 points 5 months ago

Boooring.

Hey...

ZAP.

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