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The book Obedience to Authority: http://www.amazon.com/Obedience-Authority-Stanley-Milgram/dp/006131983X http://www.amazon.com/Obedience-Authority-Stanley-Milgr

The book Obedience to Authority: http://www.amazon.com/Obedience-Authority-Stanley-Milgram/dp/006131983X http://www.amazon.com/Obedience-Authority-Stanley-Milgram/dp... Is an excellent piece of work, and shows how much work really needs to be done to try and do social science. Here's the actual table of results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Summary_of_variation_results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Summary_of_v... As you can see, by varying the way responsibility was assigned and the role the subject had they could get to the point where only 8% refused to got the 450V.

lifeisstillgood 16y ago
The wikipedia page notes that moving the experiment out of Yale into a local office building dropped the 450v obedience to 48% but "was not statistically significant" it seems hugely significant - nearly 50% reduction. Does anyone know why it's not considered significant ?
- lsb 16y ago
  I believe they got 50% compliance at Yale, from the same format. The 92% obedience was in the format where the "teacher" is in a group of paid actors, and one of the other actors was actually pressing the switch while the "teacher" read the questions. Watch the Youtube links from the comment above, they're absolutely amazing.
- apl 16y ago
  I'd have to read the paper, but statistical significance is determined by several factors - e.g., number of participants and so on. The drop could just be a fluke.
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