John Hayes wrote: >Keith Addison wrote: > > > >>I would point you towards the recent (2 yrs old, I believe) Harvard > >>experiment (and since then duplicated in several other locations) > >>that showed that ordinary human beings off the street were willing > >>to torture and even kill other people if they were told to by > >>somebody they perceived as being in a position of authority. > >> > >>They were placed in front of a panel of clearly marked buttons and > >>it was explained that they would be delivering electrical charges to > >>people in the next room. Even when the people in the next room were > >>screaming, without exception the test subjects continued to deliver > >>the shocks. One of the buttons was clearly marked LETHAL, and > >>without exception, the test subjects delivered the lethal charge > >>when instructed.
I did NOT write that, I quoted it as an attempt to debunk what I'd written. Please be more careful in future. Keith Addison Journey to Forever >You're talking about the famous Milgram Experiments conducted by Stanley >Milgram at Yale in the 1961 and 1962. Only 65% percent of study subjects > were willing to deliver final "450 volt" shock to the other subject >when so instructed by the experimenter. Milgram initiated the studies >following Adolf Eichmann's trial in 1961 to see whether or not >"Eichmann, and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just >following orders?" > >Since then, the study has been repeatedly replicated around the world. >Tom Blass from Univ. of Maryland reports that proportion of subjects >willing to deliver the highest shock remains remarkable constant between >61 and 66%, irrespective of location. > >For more info, see: > >Blass, T. The Milgram paradigm after 35 years: Some things we now know >about obedience to authority, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, >1999, Vol. 25, pp. 955-978. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
