Spooky Science episode 4: Scariest science experiment

If they had gone silent wouldn’t the button pusher assume that they aren’t hurting the person?

I dont think i get it

Was this experiment done with women too, and were the results the same? Did they do the same experiment with mixed genders? What were those results? I'd be VERY curious to know.

Moral of the story: people are the worst

If they’re dead, the next shock might revive them?

Was that ethical?

I thought this was going to be about spooky action at a distance

Of course they didn't include women in this experiment. I would like to see that data

I want to know about the participants/subjects of this experiment. I know they were students. Were they in ROTC? Business majors, Psychology majors? Were they Republicans or Feminists? Were they from affluent families? Were they raised in urban or rural environments? I really want to know.

This experiment was actually repeated in the 60s in Germany, mainly with the objective of explaining how so many Germans both civilians and soldiers were so willing to follow their orders blindly. Even in the second round of that experiment not many people refused to continue the experiment despite a second researcher posing as a volunteer setting an example of disobedience

Bear

Not even gonna credit the scientist who made the experiment?

wasn't there a Netflix show a few years back about this?
edit - it's called experimenter

Whilst not strictly spooky the Kentler Experiment always boils my blood whenever I hear about it; basically in the 60s a German scientist called Helmut Kentler decided with the full financial support of berlins government to place some foster children aged 13-15 with single paedophile fathers as he believed the men's attraction would make them better parents and that any sexual abuse wouldn't affect the children negatively as long as it was "consensual" and to no ones surprise after his death it came out that he was likely a paedophile himself

Well there’s like 3 factors to this that make it wayyy less scary

65% of test subjects were not in their right mind 😱

One of dozens mass experiments done by our govt...yet we give them taxes to do it more. Wtf

If a volunteer refused to press a single button, would they have not been included in the count? I might MAYBE would have pushed the first button but if the other volunteer vocalized pain, I woulda bailed. 65% sounds about right, but if you only count people who would actually sit down and press a few buttons, is that an accurate result? You'd have to include all the people you tried to get in the experiment. Otherwise the numbers are faulty.

Didn’t you do a video about this a really long time ago? Or someone from Crash Course?

The Milgram Experiment was messed up. The Detective Milgram assaults were fucked.

That "or what" sass would come right out

The conclusion was that, people can do horrible things under the justification that "I'm just following orders". It's scary how much people have so little autonomy.

i think spookiest science thing is how einstein probably predicted humans are idiots and will nuke ourselves but probably not till after hes had a nice long life

We study this as an ethics consideration in social work courses!

Moral of the story, people are sadistic.

Agreed

The scariest science experiment ever was actually in the 1960s when a population-wide experiment was co ducted on women. They were given hormones therapy to prevent pregnancy, there had been little clinical study, other than to show efficacy. There was no evidence of whether all the women who took it could fo it without harm, and, of course, there was no longitudinal data to show no harmful effects over time. Most women of reproductive age took it.

As a masochist I approve infact give the button that deals the maximum and you be on your way

At some point, someone should be like you can push your own button.

Everyone thinks they would be the one to stand up and say no to tyrannical leaders demanding them to do horrible things… you can’t know that until you are there. And sadly experiments like this, and more importantly, history has shown over and over again that most will do horrible things if they are ordered.

Makes me wonder if the results would have been different with women 🤔

This experiment has been largely debunked. It is stupid it continues to be cited so prominetly. Social science is largely a fraud, with the massive replication crisis.

I’d be stunned if at least one of the volunteers didn’t just immediately slam their hand on the button on the highest voltage setting before they even asked the first question

Sounds like this is an Assumption Test.

"When they tried to test the guy with a mohawk he just said F your experiment and F you! He was the only one to get a perfect score."

Im a belligerent asshole that doesn't respect authority much so I feel like I wouldn't have too hard a time with this sort of thing.

Gift and a curse lol

Some scientists believed that the people being tested must have known that it was acting so they re-did the experiment with live dogs
It didn't give lethal levels but half of participants still went through with it

Did they resemble the volunteers for the Russian Sleep Experiment? I saw the photos and went on lock down.

Early Simpsons episode.

Look at the people arguing against it but the reality is a majority of humankind is evil. Need proof other than the experiment? Look outside every day

Good soldiers follow orders

Hank, buddy, no. Great story, not so true.

Some people are incredibly good at following orders. I do what I can to protect myself from those people.

I remember learning about this in psychology and being horrified

Even worse than this I think is “the forbidden experiment” or “Frederick’s experiment”, where they took infants and divided them into two groups. In one group, caregivers meet all the infants physical needs but they did not give eye contact or give them any affection or attention. The other group of infants were raised normally. They had to stop the experiment part way through because the infants given no affection started dying. Even more heartbreaking is that the infants given no attention apparently tried to interact with their caregivers in various ways, and eventually they just “gave up”, and that’s when they would start to die.

This is part of why it’s said you need love to survive as well.

What wait I don't get it I'm stupid, sorry
Um those people who explain things in yt comments do you... Mind explaining?

I wonder if the numbers would be different if this was conducted with women.

Na bro I think it’s Russian sleep experiment

And the whole point of the experiment was to test a common excuse used by nazi war criminals in ww2

“I was just following orders”