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Sep. 5th, 2005 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teddogI just read the story behind the song We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)
Crap, that's heavy stuff. Here's the background:
"About the social experiments of Stanley Milgram, a Yale professor who had subjects administer electric shocks to a person if they answered a question wrong. The person being shocked was an actor who writhed in pain as the shocks got larger. Milgram wanted to see if the subjects would administer the shocks when the experimenter told them to, even though they were causing apparent pain in the person. Almost all subjects administered the highest level of shock despite the actor pounding the wall in apparent agony."
Only 3 of the 40 subjects refused to administer the highest level of shock. The song is about the other 37.
Crap, that's heavy stuff. Here's the background:
"About the social experiments of Stanley Milgram, a Yale professor who had subjects administer electric shocks to a person if they answered a question wrong. The person being shocked was an actor who writhed in pain as the shocks got larger. Milgram wanted to see if the subjects would administer the shocks when the experimenter told them to, even though they were causing apparent pain in the person. Almost all subjects administered the highest level of shock despite the actor pounding the wall in apparent agony."
Only 3 of the 40 subjects refused to administer the highest level of shock. The song is about the other 37.
