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Wikipedia reports that too, but the original paper reports that nobody stopped before 300 volts and that there was no feedback from the victim until that level.
by btn 16y ago
Wikipedia reports that too, but the original paper reports that nobody stopped before 300 volts and that there was no feedback from the victim until that level. I'm not sure why there's a discrepancy.
- mfukar 16y agoPossibly because there's a subtle but definite difference between an experiment carried out on 51 subjects from which 1 stopped before 300V and one on 50 subjects from which nobody stopped before 300V. I'm not saying that's what happened, but as far as I know, there's no assurance mechanism to verify datasets reported by scientists.
- pessimizer 16y agoThe scientists made the film, too, so there's probably a less interesting explanation.
- mfukar 16y agoYou're probably right; where many see fertile soil for an entertaining conspiracy theory, there may be as little as human forgetfulness. The interesting part is the implications of such omissions, and not the reasons behind them.