Would
Experiment, progress, possibly die
I would like to see a study done with several groups:
- People who read multiple books each year
- People who watch lots of video essays
- People who listen to podcasts
- People who prefer short-form content such as TikTok
- Veterans
- Educators, such as teachers or professors
- Librarians
- A control group composed of people who either do not fit into the other categories
I’ve heard a lot of people claiming some of these groups are better than others of these groups, but I’m rooting for a null result.
Where is the shock happening? I might be pressing the button a lot if it’s to the prostate.
Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.
It’s not like they were going to apply a shock that would do damage. Fuck it.
Right? People who are like ‘lol men r dumb’ are the dumb ones. It’s a social experiment, now a Saw puzzle.
Yeah its a low risk experiment. On par with poking an animal corpse with a stick, it makes sense that a solid number of men would immediately go with poke it with a stick. Also it kinda makes sense from an evolutionary point of view that men would be more prone to checking things that are low risk out, one man can make a lot of babies at a time while one woman can only make one baby at a time.
I am now curious if the rate is similar for tans folks.
100% what went through my head when I asked myself if I would also do it.
You gotta be sure, you know? Does it actually shock you? How bad does it hurt? Cant be too dangerous, right? Maybe you’ll even like it, you won’t know for sure unless you hit the button.
Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.
Remember that reaction game where you got shocked if you weren’t first to hit the buzzer? We all played that for funsies.
Also: does it only work once?
Also, can i get used to it after 4-5 more times?
Can I build up an immunity to electrocution?
Another fool taken by the iocane myth!
How could you choose avoiding a little pain over understanding a magic lightning machine?
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Don’t forget the one guy who shocked himself 190 times in the 15 minute period.
13 shocks per minute on average xd literally spamming the button
Literally every 4-5 seconds.
Don’t kink shame.
Boys rule
Gurls drool
Ick. liberal.chaser.zone
“Ow, that was painful. What would happen if I press the button again?”
“Not so bad now that I’m expecting it! Wonder if the third time is even less.”
“Still hurts but not as bad as the first or second time… I wonder how long they’re going to be gone… I wonder if it would hurt more or less if I strapped it to a… different location…”
I want to see the percentage who gave themselves more than one. They’re the real heroes of this study.
Oh, those are the scientists. And yes, they’re the heroes of this study!
One guy shocked himself 190 times
When you minmax your masochism stat.
That’s more than one every 5 seconds lmao
He probably spammed the button at some point, just to see what that would feel like
That guy was running his own study. “How many times can I shock myself before I breach the ethical limits of the study and they cut the session short”.
He underestimated their resolve though, clearly.
All of these participants had received a sample of the shock and reported that they would pay to avoid being shocked again.
From: https://news.virginia.edu/content/doing-something-better-doing-nothing-most-people-study-shows , so the chart is actually measuring the second shock.
Can’t believe they shocked themselves :o
Meanwhile millenials:
We just want to feel something, OK?
That toy has been in my Amazon cart for like a decade lol
Trying to figure out what that is.
(In a bad millennial. My mind went to some sort of weird sex toy.)
It’s basically an electric version of hot potato, The item in my Amazon wishlist is called lightning reaction.
Gen X here and I didn’t know it wasn’t a sex toy until I saw your comment.
Why not both?
I suspect that would be unsanitary?
That’s why people get tested regularly.
Looks a bit like some 4-way old fix telephone hub.
If I know that I’m in an experiment then I must gather information about the experiment.
Yeah, totally right. Although I would like to know, whether the instructor giving them the ‘this button is for shocking yourself’ was a woman or a men. Just ensuring not for any Interviewer bias. …
Anyway, I am recruiting some people for a unique experiment to test something out.
Honestly, I would do it in the first 5 minutes.
I’d wait until they’re out of the room just to be polite, but that’s it
Screw that. I’d shock myself while they explained it just to make sure they weren’t lying.
It reduces interviewer bias if you do it before they get a word in.
“Hello sir. On this table is a–”
BZZZZZT
Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?
An article linked here said they associated the results with men’s “higher sensation seeking behavior”. I read that as men are needier.
That’s… just not what that means? At least for the normal definitions of those words.
Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.
That actually knocks out knowledge AND curiosity. It’s just what the paper says-- boredom.
They were told what it would do in the study.
Ah, there’s the issue.
It’s like telling a man a knifes sharp, he’s still going to cut his thumb on the edge, because now he needs to know how sharp.
Cutting yourself is the absolutely worst way to assess sharpness. Source: I absolutely happen to have a semi-shaved left forearm right now and the first thing I do when in my mum’s kitchen is to curse her knives they’re practically indistinguishable from pestles. Expensive knives, too. Expensive, not necessarily good, you can max out the grade of steel you’re getting for about 30 bucks for a Chef’s knife. Victorinox Fibrox or F. Dick ProDynamic, that’s what you see line cooks and butchers use.
Testing sharpness by moving your thumb along the edge is more or less valid, sharpness correlates well with how much your neck hairs are on edge if you’re cutting yourself you’re not listening to that. In any case doing that won’t let you assess how smooth and regular the edge is, slicing paper is good for that you’ll feel every jag.
I need to see a chart of how many times they shocked themselves
