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Re:The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We... by yreg on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:00PM (#38650831)
> so what?

It affects subject behaviour and contaminates the experiment.

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Re:The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We... by GoblinSlayer on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:11AM (#38652697)
If the outcome of the experiment is obvious and predictable, how can you make it unpredictable? And how it demonstrates failure to reproduce? This sounds like a generic argument against psychological experiments, because you can't have them in perfect conditions, you have to see through imperfection.
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Re:The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We... by yreg on Friday December 15, 2023 @05:28AM (#38652787)
Well yes, psychological experiments are super hard to do, often borderline impossible.
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