Obedience to Authority
Description: Obedience to Authority investigates how individuals respond to orders from authority figures through controlled experiments involving electric shock administration. The study examines the extent to which people comply with commands that conflict with their personal conscience
ISBN: 006131983X
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Is an excellent piece of work, and shows how much work really needs to be done to try and do social science.
Here's the actual table of results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment#Summary_of_v...
As you can see, by varying the way responsibility was assigned and the role the subject had they could get to the point where only 8% refused to got the 450V.