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2023-08-22 13:38:27 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Later investigation revealed that the guards were actually coached into being cruel. In 2019 a debunking was published which revealed that the guards were trained to produce the researcher’s desired results, and that the conclusions of the experiment were predetermined. https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-experiment-fraud-psychology-replication https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/2019-letexier.pdf

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• Later investigation revealed that the guards were actually coached into being cruel. In 2019 a debunking was published which revealed that the guards were trained to produce the researcher’s desired results, and that the conclusions of the experiment were predetermined. https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-experiment-fraud-psychology-replication https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/2019-letexier.pdf