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There is no way you could ever do a forced swim test on a human. You would be sent to prison for a long time. You'll have to go back to the earlier half of the

• sorbus 16y ago
  Perhaps not a forced swim test, but having a human swim in place (or tread water) for as long as they can. In a swimming pool, with people around to rescue them if they stop swimming and start drowning, and being removed as soon as they give up by ... I don't know, going over and grabbing the edge of the pool? Or making some unambiguous hand gesture, or yelling a safe word, or whatever. I'm not entirely sure how valid the results from this would be, but there's also controversy over forced swim tests with rats and mice, so it would probably be just as accurate.
• ars 16y ago
  The test doesn't measure swimming, but rather how long before they give up. So you could make a rigged test. For example: Tell people you will pay them $200 if they can find the exit of a maze (either real or on the computer). But the maze is rigged, and has no exit. Then time how long it takes before they give up.