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I don't believe I'm familiar with an Ingram experiment, any chance you could expand on this? I was also unable to find something with a quick internet search, however Milgram was suggested to me.


Milgram experiment, sorry... must have got hit by autocorrect there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

You can add the Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo) to the list of, now unfalsifiable, experiments that inexplicably are regularly taught in university settings when they cannot possibly provide any useful data to the sciences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

The idea that many if not most universities create educational programs based on these very obvious problematic studies, leads me to believe that the scientific community can be as guilty of info-tainment bias as the general public. I only wish that I'd been able to continue in academia so that i could have at least a small voice in changing this problematic dynamic we live with.

They literally made a movie about the Zimbardo experiment in 2015. It couldn't be more obvious that people care more that it be true than whether it might be false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanford_Prison_Experiment...


what do you mean when you say "now unfalsifiable", is that because the experiments themselves are too unethical to be repeated?


The Zimbardo experiment, at least, has actually been falsified, so I don't think it's right to call it unfalsifiable.


That's correct, however students are being told about the manipulation these days. Especially concerning the prison experiment.




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