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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by aaronbrethorst on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:11PM (#26027375)
As the Stanley Milgram experiments show, most people will do horrible things to others when they can tell themselves that someone else is responsible

Turns out this isn't accurate. See https://theconversation.com/milgram-was-wrong-we-dont-obey-a...

But as my detective work in the Yale Archives has revealed, in the filmed version of the experiment 65% of participants disobeyed. Yet Milgram edited his film to show the opposite: that two-thirds will do as they’re told.

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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by btilly on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:49PM (#26027832)
Given the many replications of variations of Milgram's experiments, any flaws in his original experiment don't detract from the overall result.

See https://behavioralscientist.org/how-would-people-behave-in-m... for some of that replication data.

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Re:McKinsey to pay $573M to settle claims over opioid crisis... by arethuza on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:28PM (#26027565)
That still means 35% of people are happy giving others serious electric shocks if told to by an authority figure?

Not as bad as 65% but still pretty bad!

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