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Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks by djsumdog on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:43AM (#24271234)
Stanley Milgram preformed an experiment that was incredibly valuable and has been replicated in many countries around the world. Variations of the experiment with different results helped narrow down important factors.

Today, it's unethical to preform the Milgram experiment. Michael/vSauce did preform the actual trolley experiment for a YouTube video, which is interesting, but it was bad scientifically because the sample size was too small, the experiment changed for one person, and the ethics for the entire thing was questionable.

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Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks by wycy on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:53AM (#24271349)
The Milgram experiment is largely seen as a fraud now[0].

[0] https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...

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Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks by djsumdog on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:44AM (#24271833)
This article is about the prison experiments. The Milgram experiments are a small paragraph at the bottom and there have been a number of people trying to discredit the experiments.

I've watched the original in University with the old black and white tapes. There have been interviews with people years later who said, "I really believe I killed that person in the other room," and furthermore, it has been replicated in other countries by other researchers.

We can argue about numbers and percentages, but the idea that you can put up walls of abstraction to get people to kill others is established in other research outside of Milgram.

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Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks by sebwi on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:17AM (#24271563)
Thanks! I wasn't aware about it being a fraud.
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Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks by djsumdog on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:27PM (#24274401)
It's not. See the other comments.
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Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks by thehappypm on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @11:32AM (#24272396)
The Milgram experiment is complete bullshit. All it shows, if anything, is that if you put people into extremely contrived, untrustable, bizarre scenarios, you'll get some interesting responses.
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Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:03PM (#24273457)
That seems pretty relevant to the extremely contrived, non-representative, bizarre scenario the world finds itself in today.
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Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks by aneesh297 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:11AM (#24271506)
The Milgram experiment only proved how easy it is to fool the world by publishing lies. Read the validity section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
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Re:Coronavirus: Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks by djsumdog on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:47AM (#24271865)
> The experiment was repeated many times around the globe, with fairly consistent results.[6]

Even if there were problems with the original experiment (and I've read Dimow before and doubt what he's saying; there are interviews from former participants who said they really did believe they had killed the person in the other room), it's been replicated in other countries.

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