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Re: Warrentless Search
> Stanley Milgraine experiments:
>
> Subjects were told they were participating in a "learning" study,
> and a confederate was strapped into a chair and electrodes were
> attached (the subject did not know that the confederate was always
> in the chair and was led to believe that they could have been in
> the chair). The subject is then taken to an adjacent room and the
> confederate is given tasks to perform. When the confederate made
> an error, the subject was instructed to administer an electric shock,
> with increasing voltage as the study progressed.
>
> The results were astounding. ALL subjects continued to administer
> shocks after the confederate began screaming from the other room.
> When he began kicking at the wall, some subjects would stop. Most
> (90%, I believe) would continue when the examiner would tell them
> that the study would be invalidated if they refused.
>
> A follow-up study explained the details of the study to new subjects.
> They were told about the confederate and let in on the "secret", and
> then asked how far they would've gone if they were the subject (they
> were not told the actual results). NONE of the subjects said they
> would have continued with the experiment through the end, even though
> 75% (I believe) of the real subjects did.
This is a little confusing, could you please repost it without so many
ambiguous pronouns? (like 'they' in the fourth line of paragraph 1
for example)
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