Maybe the Stanford Prison experiment contains what @BretWeinstein calls "metaphorical truth".
Porcupines don't throw their quills, but children who believe they do stay safer than those who don't.
People don't become sadistic with such minor external manipulations, but . . .
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Are you talking about the post-experiment spin? Or the original experimental design? Was the experiment designed in bad faith from the beginning?
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And by "bad faith" I mean scientific bad faith. I know there was some bad faith between the experimenters and the participants.
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here's what I'm left wondering: why was it compelling to dress up this intuition in pseudo-science to make a point? our cultural history is full of both real historical examples and mytho-poetic examples of the tendency for institutional settings to excuse interpersonal evil.
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It does seem redundant.
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