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And the Stanford Prison Experiment was somewhere between an extraordinarily poorly designed experiment and an outright hoax.
by philwelch 2y ago
And the Stanford Prison Experiment was somewhere between an extraordinarily poorly designed experiment and an outright hoax.
- kfrzcode 2y agoHave you read the Lucifer Effect? It seems like you might not have read the book.
- philwelch 2y agoDoes the book contain an apology for perpetrating the hoax? If not I’m not particularly interested. The Stanford Prison Experiment is the kind of thing that gives the entire field of psychology a bad reputation. It’s literally used as a case study in how not to design experiments.
- dekhn 2y agoI'm pretty sure we don't need to read his book to know that his experimental methodology lacks rigor and that the conclusions were not supported reliably by the evidence.