Milgram Experiment (Derren Brown)

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1. I wouldn't be a good test subject because I have hear of
   this test, but I think I would probably give the full shock
   if I didn't know about it.
2. @pianoman1189 you're right.
3. What you are saying make no sense. Don't embarrasse yourself
   in the future like that, please
4. @TBlake34 If you can't conclude moral values from this
   video, then where can you? This is one of the most
   revealing insights to human behavior.
5. @kriskt Yeah... I'm still surprised that this study shows
   the same results in the 21st century... I feel that
   EVERYBODY should be educated about the Milgrim experiment in
   order to prevent similar real-life situations like this from
   ever occurring.
6. @dannyboy41 The original Milgrim experiment did not follow
   up on the subjects after 3 months, so there is no data
   supporting that it causes prolonged psychological effects.
   It is considered unethical to perform it up to 450 volts in
   today's society.
7. @StormWolf01 It is - it's limited to 250 volts now, which is
   when the "learner" is supposed to stop responding. Not sure
   how Derren got around it...
8. @37coolidge Notice that because you saw this video, you
   would hopefully not act the same way that these normal
   people did if confronted with a situation similar to this.
   Knowledge of human nature, behaviors, and tendencies help
   mankind make good judgements and decisions.
9. @37coolidge This is a re-enactment of the original Milgrim
   experiments, which are certainly not fake. It's easy to
   watch this video and claim that you would not go all the way
   to 450 volts, but that is what psychologists call the
   fundamental attribution error. The FAE reveals that we tend
   to overestimate the importance of personality and
   underestimate the importance of the situation. Also, this
   shows hindsight bias, in that when the answer is already
   presented, it seems obvious.
10. no they really didn't dude, this is the milgram experiment
    :-|
11. Of course, the truth of one position over the other has
    nothing to do with which one is more persuasive or
    desirable.
12. Atheists offer a worldview that offers only positive
    reinforcement--the benefit of helping others. Theist offer
    a worldview that offers negative reinforcement--the fear of
    eternal punishment for non-belief--and positive
    reinforcement--the afterlife in paradise. In this case, two
    reinforcements, both postive and negative, trumps one.
13. stupid people in that time thought that germans are only
    able to tortoure people....how poor the mind of the people
    was....
14. Let me ask you, have you hear about the milgram experiement?
    why would you think this is fake?
15. God is the ultimate athority. religion itself is made to
    function as an athority.
16. @Mwlxhoir40: Oh, so you wouldn´t catigorise priests as
    athority figures?
17. @MrFelixify no, there must be another reason
18. Derren Brown uses stooges in some of his tricks, but this
    one was real.
19. ? but no one actually got a shock. not in the milgram
    experiment either. how could you miss that? thats the whole
    point of the experiment. Actors pretending to be shocked to
    see if the subjects (the ones thinking they are the
    teachers) would administrade deadly shocks if a athoroty
    figure tells them its ok.
20. because guy with wierd hats reading an old book is telling
    them not to? :)
21. i have a feeling that all the participants knew what they
    were doing and that the whole episode was staged ( in other
    words all the people on the show knew that they weren't
    really doing anything to the guy in the other room) in order
    to make good television. That is the sad part
22. @williedla it was completely criticized for being
    unethical...not that the media cares about that
23. So the majority of people will administer lethal electric
    shocks just because a guy in a white coat is telling them
    to. But the majority of people haven't yet adopted atheism
    just because some guys in white coats are telling them to.
    Why is that?
24. What this teaches is not that people are inherently
    obedient, but that people should be educated about how
    morals are more important than obedience to authority.
25. amps kill you, not volts... some t.a.z.e.r.s are around
    20,000