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It's difficult to achieve some kind of objectivity. Of course no one wants to believe that they are innately bad or easily coerced into doing terrible things to
by hurin 12y ago
It's difficult to achieve some kind of objectivity. Of course no one wants to believe that they are innately bad or easily coerced into doing terrible things to other human beings, so it seems like it would be very natural to expect them to lash out at the methods of the experiment.
- riffraff 12y agoNot to argue the basic concept, but in this specific case, AFAIK, it's very arguable whether "people are innately evil" might have been proven. I.e. the experiment was influenced by the author of the research by his own admission, and the results were never replicated.
- hurin 12y ago> Not to argue the basic concept, but in this specific case, AFAIK, it's very arguable whether "people are innately evil" might have been proven. I definitely was not implying that a statement like that was (let alone ever could be) proven; only that for the subjects that participated in the experiment, who were exposed to that perhaps popular interpretation of the results - could be expected have a significantly different perception of the experiment on account of this.