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> so what? Did they get a grade on their participation? I'd bet not. So why would they care what the hypothesis was? - If you were a subject in an experiment,
by mlyle 3y ago
> so what? Did they get a grade on their participation? I'd bet not. So why would they care what the hypothesis was?
- If you were a subject in an experiment, wouldn't you be curious about the experiment design and the hypothesis being tested?
- If you had a good guess as to the tested hypothesis, could that influence your behavior?
- AlbertCory 3y ago[flagged]
- spicymapotofu 3y agoIs asking questions a worse form of dialogue to you? Is it intentionally ironic that you left only a snarky question yourself?
- Supermancho 3y agoThese questions are all posited from a modern, critical perspective, which is pointlessly fishing for theoreticals out of context. If the experiment was via college students, it is unlikely that anyone thought about the experiment design much, because students. This may be true of any adults in that time and area, maybe, as a (unnoted) selection bias. There was an implicit cultural deference to authority in the 70s that doesnt exist now (the thinking of the counter culture was also very different). Finally, there was a weak understanding of what terminology (like subject) implied or the inherent dangers, much less the ethical perils.