[FRIAM] Stanford Prison Experiment

[Bela Patkai]

This is quite interesting, but I'm not sure how to conclude this story, so I've been pondering on the following options:

1. He lied, bad person!

2. One experiment (measurement) is no experiment, so what? Non-issue.

3. A large community of scientists were involved in one way or another for decades! Science has a serious credibility issue.

4. Smart experiment! How long can a convenient truth hold its foot in the door? Actually 4.7 decades - the research question is answered! Great contribution!

5. It's typical that nobody talks about the real question, i.e. does the uniform really make the jailor and to what extent? (I guess that question is answered, but still, why not frame this as "model-A is broken, use model-B"?)

6. Zimbardo is like 90 years old, bad timing! 

7. Finally I understand the name of his "Heroic Imagination Project", sounds like fun!


Béla



> On 14 Jun 2018, at 18.03, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
> 
> Chatting with a recent psychology grad, I heard more qualification than I did yes and no.  
> Need more active doubt and wide-awake risk-taking than we need drama, IMO.   Good for her.
> 
> On 6/14/18, 9:42 AM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.
>    https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-experiment-fraud-psychology-replication
> 
>    Damn.  Now I'm gonna have to go back to every time I've used this experiment rhetorically and figure out if it changes my argument. 8^)
> 
>    -- 
>    ☣ uǝlƃ
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