ted (not lasso)
@ted
the most sensationalized social psychology studies that are used to tell us humans are innately bad are seriously flawed, but all made for great headlines. – stanford prison (you should know this one): guards were instructed and encouraged to be cruel, didn’t do it naturally – milgram shock (often used to explain the holocaust): participants were pressured into doing it despite resistance, most believed it wasn’t “real” – marshmallow test (delayed gratification with kids): more so a measure of socioeconomic status, not predictor of success – robbers cave (kinda like diet lord of the flies): the conflict between the boys was manufactured and instigated by the researchers good stories ≠ good science
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Angel
@sayangel
and when papers get retracted etc. the headline impact is irreversible. I constantly encourage @codon to start a podcast dissecting headlines for the average reader! Or animations. Or something that people like to consume. Spoiler: the masses don't bother reading papers.
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johnsterlaccii
@sterlacci
the funny thing about the milgram shock experiment is that there was an experiment on boredom where they hooked participants up to electrodes and left them alone with no instruction every participant ended up giving themselves increasingly more and more painful shocks
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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
I don't think those studies told us that humans are innately bad. Quite the contrary, they suggested that goodness and badness are largely systemic factors rather than something innate like "character." They tended to reveal that systems and incentives have a much stronger pull on our behaviors than we like to admit.
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Jules🌴✨
@coke55
And this is why I love the blank slate theory (tabula rasa) It says that humans are born without any innate mental content or predispositions. The mind is considered a blank slate at birth, and all knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors are shaped entirely by experiences and environmental influences.
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Chloe `✦ˑ ִֶ 𓂃⊹
@chloee
👏🏼
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Diñero
@gryphon
Me, quietly googling everything she typed.....
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Corbanzobean
@corbanstewart.base.eth
Mask stays on $SKI
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Simisola.eth
@simplysimi
Hey Ted 💕 Mind if I give you a dm?
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