Results: White Coat
In the early 1960s, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram ran a series of experiments that still unsettle people today. Volunteers were told they were taking part in a study of learning and memory, assigned the role of "teacher," and instructed to administer electric shocks to a "learner" every time a wrong answer was given. The shocks weren't real and the learner was an actor, but the teachers didn't know that.
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If you were the "teacher" in Milgram's shock experiment and a man in a white lab coat said "Please continue," where do you think you'd actually stop?
At the first scream - my conscience has a very low voltage tolerance.
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192 votes
Around 150 volts - old enough to know better, young enough to still argue with a lab coat.
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86 votes
Somewhere between "This feels wrong" and "But he's the expert..." - the classic moral grey zone.
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92 votes
All the way to 450 volts - if science needs a villain, I'll play my part.
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49 votes
I'd refuse from the start - the only thing I'm shocking today is my disbelief at this whole setup.
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541 votes
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