Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Inglis-Arkell, Esther (06/09/2013), How many people really went through with the Milgram Experiment?, io9, Retrieved on 2013-06-10
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    10 JUN 2013

     Questioning the Milgram Experiment

    It appeared that sixty-five percent of people would torture someone to death, if pressured to do so. The results made their way into both psychology and cocktail party conversation. But were they correct? At least one woman doesn't think so. Gina Perry, for her book, Behind the Shock Machine, traced as many participants in the Milgram experiment as she could, and re-examined the notes of the experiment. Milgram claimed that seventy-five percent of the participants believed in the reality of t...
    Folksonomies: psychology ethics
    Folksonomies: psychology ethics
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    These questions raise an even greater objection to the validity of the experiment. If the results cannot be reproduced, because the experiment was unethical, then we shouldn't cite it a evidence of anything every. Science demands reproducible results, and without replication we do not have evidence.

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