On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:59:27 -0700, Stuart McKelvie wrote:
>Dear Tipsters,
>
>If I remember correctly, the film introduced a fictional love 
>interest...........

I saw it when it first aired or thereabouts and remember that there
was a lead female character (on www.imbd.com it may be the
character "Barbara" who was played by Lynn Carlin).  I don't
remember it as a "love interest" per se but I do remember that
Shatner/Turner pleaded with her in one scene to continue on the 
project because he needed her expertese in analyzing the data.  
I need to re-watch the movie on YouTube but I thought it was 
kind of strange that Shatner/Turner/Milgram would need help 
doing the statistics and it seems even stranger in retrospect if 
one actually reads his 1963 "Obedience to Authority" paper -- 
Milgram only reports descriptive statistics. Perhaps I am
misremembering.

>After knowing that, it was the end for me. (I assume it was fiction.).

Well, if memory serves, wasn't the "10th level" the highest level
of shock?  There were 30 levels/switches on Milgram's original
device.  I think that a number of things were changed to make
the story more dramatic and interesting, from a pop culture/mass
media perspective.

-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]




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