I really hate these social experiments. Most of the time they're usually just bulshit. And just trying to get youtube fame.

This is already been proven as fake. Stephen Zang and the makers had the guys and girl act in this. But of course didn't have them sign waiver. This is why you always sign a waiver when you do these things. Los Angeles is a haven for these ''social experiments'' and zany interviews. But most have waivers the person chooses to sign. Even then it's a tough call honestly. Since editing can make anyone look like a dick.

The creators of this video are assholes. And now the guys in the videos are being harassed. A bit of a cautionary tale.

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Gunsnhalen said:

I really hate these social experiments. Most of the time they're usually just bulshit. And just trying to get youtube fame.

This is already been proven as fake. Stephen Zang and the makers had the guys and girl act in this. But of course didn't have them sign waiver. This is why you always sign a waiver when you do these things. Los Angeles is a haven for these ''social experiments'' and zany interviews. But most have waivers the person chooses to sign. Even then it's a tough call honestly. Since editing can make anyone look like a dick.

The creators of this video are assholes. And now the guys in the videos are being harassed. A bit of a cautionary tale.

[Edited 11/13/14 12:02pm]

after i watched a few clips on the 'ten hours walking around new york as a woman' theme, the YouTube link went to the WWYD? series of candid camera style set ups like the one above. part of me likes that these shed light on what human nature tends toward, but you're right. the nature of the experiment itself tends to taint the results.

Naw, they're right. Bunch of dogs!

This isn't exactly what you're talking about but I am totally fascinated by the Stanford Prison Experiment. College kids assigned the role of "prisoner" and "guard" turn totally brutal against each other in a controlled experiment - that they KNOW is an experiment - and yet find themselves pushed right over the edge, and the instructor goes right along with them.

Also the experiments of Stanley Milgram, getting ordinary people to become "teachers" trying to help a group of "learners' improve their memory by administering electric shocks of increasing voltage, right up to the max dosage which may be lethal. How many ordinary people would zap their fellow humans to death? Turns out, under the right controlled circumstances, almost all of them will.

I read that this experiment was repeated recently and STILL almost everyone was willing to go all the way. The only group that reliably stood up and refused to go along with it were women who had experience with some kind of activism.

I find this really interesting, that no matter how much we consider ourselves people of good will with no particular malice to anyone else, we're incredibly easy to manipulate under the right kind of authority. We find it almost impossible to stand up and say "no" in the face of a room full of people saying "yes" especially if we think that room full of people has authority over us.