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Originally Posted by cyborgasm
It seems sooooo ridiculous! At first, I think it would be very silly for anyone (manager, employee, fiancee, etc.) to go along with such an absurd prank phone call. Wouldn't they know in an instant that it was BS? Yet, I'm reminded of the classical psychology Asch conformity experiments where an experimental subject was put into a room with other "subjects" (who were actually in on the experiment). All the "subjects" were then shown a few lines of differing length (with one being clearly longer than the others). Then all the people who were in on it were asked which line was longest, and they all declared one of the shorter lines to be longest. When the true subject was then asked which was longest, a surprising number concurred with the obviously incorrect majority! (32% according to wikipedia). I mean how much more clear cut can you get? Which line is longer? OR Would a police officer ask you to strip for some random employee's boyfriend? Perception is so fickle, it's scary. Also the whole authority telling you to do something ties into the Milgram experiment...
We are all so much more manipulatable than we think!
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Dude, I there was some experiment done (don't know the name) where they made people think they were giving a test subject in another room electric shocks, with like a dial to turn the voltage up and down, and a button to press to shock the person. It didn't actually shock the person, because the real test subject was the person controlling the buttons. They found that when ordered to raise the voltage to dangerous levels, most people would comply if they were ordered by someone in a suit, or a lab coat, or a uniform...someone who looked like an authority figure. They also found that only people of higher intelligence would think the question what they were being told to do.
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Originally Posted by FilthyFletch
Nope Im sticking with being retards..Even a 10 year old wouldnt take there clothes off and blow some old man cuz the man on the phone said to..Police some to question you not order you on the phone to do sexual deviant acts
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Damn, that's a good point...