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What you have quoted says a third of people who thought it was real didn’t disobey the experimenter when they thought they were delivering dangerous and lethal
by IanCal 8mo ago
What you have quoted says a third of people who thought it was real didn’t disobey the experimenter when they thought they were delivering dangerous and lethal electric shocks to a human. Is that correct?
- cwizou 8mo agoMaybe there was an edit but it's the opposite, 66% disobeyed.
- IanCal 8mo agoRight, so a third didn’t disobey.
- cyanydeez 8mo agoA third of a half who were believers. So of the entire populace of Milligram participants, 16.5% believed and obeyed. That's a much, much smaller claim than the popular belief of what Milligram presented. However, it's still possible that you only need ~16.5% to believe & obey authority for things like the Nazi death camps to occur.
- IanCal 8mo agoWe immediately only need to consider the half that believed the situation was real, if we are concerned with what people do in believably real situations. Even if we take the 16% though, that's one in six people willing to deliver very obvious direct harm and/or kill another human from exceptionally mild coercion with zero personal benefit attached other than the benefit of not having to say "no". That is a lot.