Curious Poll

[darylscook]

Before today, How many of you have ever heard of Stanley Milgram

I was wondering how famous (or infamous) Mr. Milgram was? I have never heard of him.

I'm a dufus, the last poll option should say.. I HAD heard about Stanley Milgram and the experiment. PG can you fix that?

[jessicacook]

I had never heard of him either, but then again, until yesterday I had never heard of the Huffington Post. I guess I am out of the loop!

[Pastor Gary]

Kind of a messed up poll, buddy... choice #1 and choice #3 are the same??

There's no option for "I HAVE heard of..."

For the record, I knew of the experiment, but did not remember the name of the researcher until I saw it here and went "Isn't that the guy who did the shock experiment?"

Also for the record: as a 30-year Camp Director, I can tell you (a) the whole loaded shotgun thing was over the top -- by a factor of 10, and (b) that was not original at all, as I remember a lot of youth group/camp worker books having outlines for such shock-value "catacomb" services, but I don't recall any mention of real guns and mock executions.

[RamboPreacher]

Kind of a messed up poll, buddy... choice #1 and choice #3 are the same??

There's no option for "I HAVE heard of..."

For the record, I knew of the experiment, but did not remember the name of the researcher until I saw it here and went "Isn't that the guy who did the shock experiment?"

ditto (though I was thinking 6 degrees)

[jdavis]

I had heard of the experiment but had forgotten the name of the scientist.
I wonder if his nickname was sparky?

[darylscook]

Kind of a messed up poll, buddy... choice #1 and choice #3 are the same??

There's no option for "I HAVE heard of..."

Sorry I tried to fix it, but I was not able.

Also for the record: as a 30-year Camp Director, I can tell you (a) the whole loaded shotgun thing was over the top -- by a factor of 10, ...

For the record: I agree 100+%

and I am hoping and praying that his recollection is exaggerated.

Everyone please know that does not happen in our camps and has not for quite a while!!

Also, I was not trying to diminish the seriousness of what happend in the 70s, I'd just never heard of the guy and was curious what his level of infamy was.


Pastor Daryl

[Paully_44]

still dont know who he is. Havent googled him yet.

[Gerald Creasy]

I had not heard of this experiment but it brought to mind another real experiment which was depicted in an CBS Afterschool Special, where a History teacher proves to his class how easy it is for people to fall for ideaology similar to the Nazis.

[DaJudge]

If you had asked my who he was by name, I couldn't have told you, but I have heard of his experiments. There was a special on TV that showed the actual film footage that Milgram took of his "guinea pigs" as he conducted the "shock experiments". Pretty interesting.

[DeWayneTN]

I had not heard of this experiment but it brought to mind another real experiment which was depicted in an CBS Afterschool Special, where a History teacher proves to his class how easy it is for people to fall for ideaology similar to the Nazis.

I saw that, too. They showed it at school!

(detour alert) When I was in eigth grade, the teachers in my "pod" selected a handful of us students to be extra special. They would give us candy in front of the others in the class and sometimes even dismiss us to roam the halls during class. We were brought to the front of the lines and always given special treatment. We wondered why, but didn't worry too much about it, because we liked the attention. Later, their (kinda weak) correlation was this was how the Jews were treated prior to the holocaust.

[Tracy]

You need another choice:

"I hadn't heard of Stanley Milgram until this poll was posted"

That is what I would choose.

Who in the world is Stanley Milgram?

[dolfan]

Its the only thing I remember out of one whole semester of Abnormal Psychology. I'd say I didn't get my money's worth.