I would like to see a study done with several groups:
- People who read multiple books each year
- People who watch lots of video essays
- People who listen to podcasts
- People who prefer short-form content such as TikTok
- Veterans
- Educators, such as teachers or professors
- Librarians
- A control group composed of people who either do not fit into the other categories
I’ve heard a lot of people claiming some of these groups are better than others of these groups, but I’m rooting for a null result.
When I was in grad school, a bunch of us were at the house of a guy with an invisible fence for his dog. Someone wondered if it was cruel and that led to each of the grad students there except me putting on the dog’s collar and then crossing the fence. (The consensus was that it really hurts, but it isn’t agonizing.) At the time I knew that not shocking myself was, in some sense, the smart thing to do, but in retrospect I regret being a boring dork.
I once voluntarily shocked myself with a dog collar at a party. It was kind of fun, so I did it about 20 more times and shocked other people with it too. In my defense, I was drunk.
If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren’t wearing shoes. Just FYI.
Where is the shock happening? I might be pressing the button a lot if it’s to the prostate.
Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.
You gotta be sure, you know? Does it actually shock you? How bad does it hurt? Cant be too dangerous, right? Maybe you’ll even like it, you won’t know for sure unless you hit the button.
Also: does it only work once?
Also, can i get used to it after 4-5 more times?
Can I build up an immunity to electrocution?
Another fool taken by the iocane myth!
Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.
It’s not like they were going to apply a shock that would do damage. Fuck it.
100% what went through my head when I asked myself if I would also do it.
Right? People who are like ‘lol men r dumb’ are the dumb ones. It’s a social experiment, now a Saw puzzle.
Yeah its a low risk experiment. On par with poking an animal corpse with a stick, it makes sense that a solid number of men would immediately go with poke it with a stick. Also it kinda makes sense from an evolutionary point of view that men would be more prone to checking things that are low risk out, one man can make a lot of babies at a time while one woman can only make one baby at a time.
I am now curious if the rate is similar for tans folks.
If I know that I’m in an experiment then I must gather information about the experiment.
I want to see the percentage who gave themselves more than one. They’re the real heroes of this study.
One guy shocked himself 190 times
That guy was running his own study. “How many times can I shock myself before I breach the ethical limits of the study and they cut the session short”.
He underestimated their resolve though, clearly.
When you minmax your masochism stat.
That’s more than one every 5 seconds lmao
He probably spammed the button at some point, just to see what that would feel like
All of these participants had received a sample of the shock and reported that they would pay to avoid being shocked again.
From: https://news.virginia.edu/content/doing-something-better-doing-nothing-most-people-study-shows , so the chart is actually measuring the second shock.
Honestly, I would do it in the first 5 minutes.
I’d wait until they’re out of the room just to be polite, but that’s it
Screw that. I’d shock myself while they explained it just to make sure they weren’t lying.
It reduces interviewer bias if you do it before they get a word in.
“Hello sir. On this table is a–”
BZZZZZT
I licked a 9 volt from the beeping smoke detector the other day to see if it was dead. Nobody was around to impress and it wasn’t for fun, just wanted a quick result.
Would probably shock myself if stuck alone for 15 mins too. Heck, I find those shocking handle games to be hilarious fun.
Note: have ADHD which may or may not be related since I keep forgetting how much getting shocked hurts. Burns leave a mark and are more memorable so I wouldn’t touch anything hot for fun.
I’m really surprised no one here said they would pull down their pants and start violently jerking off while intently staring at the researchers through the one-way window thing.
Don’t forget the one guy who shocked himself 190 times in the 15 minute period.
Don’t kink shame.
Absolutely no way I’d shock myself in boredom willingly. I have way too much respect for myself… says the man who has on multiple occasions twisted a pencil multiple times in my hair to the point it starts to get the smallest pain reaction when I’ve been bored at home in the middle of the night.
Just get someone else to pull your hair, it’s a lot more fun
The best part is “at least one”. What’s the breakdown of more than one shock?
Bored people give themselves a bunch of painful shocks and when that isn’t enough to feel alive they increase the amperage of the shocks. Really the perfect metaphor of all of us using doomscrolling on social media.
“Ow, that was painful. What would happen if I press the button again?”
“Not so bad now that I’m expecting it! Wonder if the third time is even less.”
The fact that 25% of women did do it and 25% of men didn’t is fascinating to me. What are your favorite explanations here?
I’m going with 25% of people of either gender are just sort of contrarians to their own gender and thus did what they think the opposite one would do. I feel like I would do that.
25% of all people are trans but haven’t realized it yet.
Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?
Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.
