http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20000614-503543.html
QuoteUnder the guise of a game show, complete with a studio audience, contestants pose various trivia questions to another participant. If the answer is incorrect, contestants literally flip the switch and shock the other player, with the voltage increasing (all the way up to 460 volts) as wrong answers continue to flow in
So it seems people have been repeating the milgram experiments again, except this time, it's all for the cameras.
It seems people are a lot more easily influenced when they have cameras on them and a encouraging crowd telling them to kill people.
Yeah, sure, this was only an experiment, but just wait, soon we'll have REAL programs with REAL people being encouraged to kill other REAL people with REAL pain.
Fuck, maybe I should get in on this idea before someone else does, a lot of money to be made off human deaths, I hear these days.
I'd watch it.
Quote from: Regret on March 18, 2010, 11:12:46 AM
I'd watch it.
I don't know if you can get the video on this but here's the Sky report
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/French-TV-Experiment-Which-Encouraged-Players-To-Torture-Another-Contestant-Condemned-In-France/Article/201003315575334?lpos=Strange_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15575334_French_TV_Experiment_Which_Encouraged_Players_To_Torture_Another_Contestant_Condemned_In_France
I was going to scaryurl the link actually but I think that is quite scary enough . . .
When I studied Milgram in college we always assumed that no reputable college ethics committee would ever let the Milgram programme be replicated and a lot of the power of Milgram, beyond the whole banality of evil thing, lies in this "uniqueness". So I'm quite intrigued that the 15 "psychologists" behind this "experiment" are not claiming any institutional affiliation. Maybe TV is the new educational institution which will take this kind of "research" forward. Onward to "The Running Man" we jolly well go . . .
PS I found this link to a recent Meta-analysis of DISobedience in the original Milgram test sets yesterday -
http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/spa/news2/Packer_Perspectives.pdf
Thread's been done.
Videodrome.
related thread: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=24517.0
related short story: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/cramulus/index.php?title=Jury_of_Peers
Quote from: Cramulus on March 18, 2010, 04:29:59 PM
related thread: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=24517.0
related short story: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/cramulus/index.php?title=Jury_of_Peers
Thanks Cram, I've cross posted to the original thread.
I enjoyed the short story, too.