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dantheman · 2010-11-08 · Original thread
The book Obedience to Authority: http://www.amazon.com/Obedience-Authority-Stanley-Milgram/dp...

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.

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