TheOtherDave comments on Why Don't People Help Others More? - Less Wrong

36 Post author: peter_hurford 13 August 2012 11:34PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 August 2012 03:12:28PM 10 points [-]

The funny thing about Milgram is that the people who trusted the scientist and obeyed were factually right even if it didn't feel that way to them at the time. No experimental subject was being hurt.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 14 August 2012 03:22:37PM 9 points [-]

Of course, by the same token they were factually wrong: no experimental subject was learning to memorize a list of words.