Keith Addison wrote:
>>I would point you towards the recent (2 yrs old, I believe) Harvard >>experiment (and since then duplicated in several other locations) >>that showed that ordinary human beings off the street were willing >>to torture and even kill other people if they were told to by >>somebody they perceived as being in a position of authority. >> >>They were placed in front of a panel of clearly marked buttons and >>it was explained that they would be delivering electrical charges to >>people in the next room. Even when the people in the next room were >>screaming, without exception the test subjects continued to deliver >>the shocks. One of the buttons was clearly marked LETHAL, and >>without exception, the test subjects delivered the lethal charge >>when instructed. You're talking about the famous Milgram Experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram at Yale in the 1961 and 1962. Only 65% percent of study subjects were willing to deliver final "450 volt" shock to the other subject when so instructed by the experimenter. Milgram initiated the studies following Adolf Eichmann's trial in 1961 to see whether or not "Eichmann, and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders?" Since then, the study has been repeatedly replicated around the world. Tom Blass from Univ. of Maryland reports that proportion of subjects willing to deliver the highest shock remains remarkable constant between 61 and 66%, irrespective of location. For more info, see: Blass, T. The Milgram paradigm after 35 years: Some things we now know about obedience to authority, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1999, Vol. 25, pp. 955-978. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
