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Re:How People Can Get You To Do What They Want by cicada on Friday August 07, 2009 @10:01AM (#747568)
The ethical concerns about the Milgram experiment are too varied to go into much detail here (if you're interested, http://books.google.com/books?id=U44OAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA193 ) but the short, relevant, version is that the psychological impact was positive, not negative. 84% of those surveyed (out of 92% who participated) reported that they were "glad" or "very glad" to have participated in the experiment.
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Re:How People Can Get You To Do What They Want by verdant on Friday August 07, 2009 @10:31AM (#747616)
Very interesting. I was just going off the ethical arguments and data raised from a course I took while at the university where we studied the Milgram experiment.

I guess that's what I get for just going along with someone who was an "authority" on the subject.

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