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From: nehaniv@oreo.berkeley.edu (Chrystopher Lev Nehaniv)
Subject: Re: Milgram's 37
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 11:28:07 GMT
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In article <D8F746ABC02028C2@MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> TREADWAY@MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU writes:
>Subject: Milgram's 37
>
>About Milgram's 37:  It is actually a home-made alcoholic beverage.
>Just kidding...Honestly, Milgram was an experimental psychologists that 
>persuaded 37 subjects to painfully, even lethally, shock strangers - an
>electric chair type set-up.  He was basically studying the obedience of humans
>to authority figures.  Needless to say, this experiment was the basis of many
>ethics in research discussions.
>				Have fun, Joel
Actually the `shocked' strangers weren't being shocked, but were
actors acting shocked. The ethics brouhaha was about deception of
the subjects and their being made to do something apparently immoral.

		     -X



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