we're going to look about the game of death it's a controversial new shall on
french television
and that it's based on that the nineteen sixty one year lease payment by stanley
milligram
that has to do with the electric shocks
familiar with the right at the very very controversial study that was that back
in the day and at this french gameshow is basically doing the same thing i let
me explain what it is so the contestants art able to %uh shock
people in electric chair something right and they're able to control the power of
the or the voltage of the shock
and and
what we found from the show is at the eighty one percent of the contestants
were persuaded to administer people electric shocks to a victim
and up to two hundred forty volts charges
okay cell
as long as they were encouraged by the audience to
you know op the shock they would do it
eighty one percent
%uh also sixteen out of the eighty concede that contestants refused to
administrate that electric shocks even with
%uh encouragement from the audience
now the contestants didn't know exact the people that they were shocking were
actors they weren't actually getting shock and %uh in the end some of them oh
%uh pretend as if they got
right record batten down
so aids
a controversial shell but i think it's
of very very
interesting shell because of the fact that it shows you that encouragement can
cause you to do anything
i kinda tightness into a story that we did yesterday i don't know if you saw
the video of the tea party years %uh degrading that met with parkinson's
disease right on there and i were talking about it and how i'll be remains
that the man sitting on the street and you have to keep our tears throwing
money at him and telling him there are no free handouts and they're being so
cruel to that man
and we were wondering how they could possibly do that and not feel guilty
about it but if you go back to the video when you watch it they're all encourage
each other so encouragement can have a real impact on human behavior right into
it's war they call it mob psychology in hand
you know in a sense of everybody's comparing it to these nineteen sixty one
experiment it's a little different because in nineteen sixty one experiment
the book %uh the the the experimental wrote about it was called obedience to
authority right in that case everybody did it because figure of authority said
it's ok give them more give them more in this case do what makes it interesting
that a little different is that everybody did it because the crowds at
give them or give them more so it's that mob psychology is the map psychology but
i'll ask you really how different is that foxnews which pushing torture you
know if you think about it it's kind of a metaphor for our whole country over
the last ten years america always said we don't torture prisoners we follow the
rule of law we follow the geneva convention we stand up for what's right
and the last ten years all of america has been horribly chocolate america has
been like the contestants on the game show at torturing yet given what's
common inaamta those bastards you know stick it to them that straight you're
doing the right thing so to me eat you know %uh this
a lot of people who sacristy frenchman but to me this is pots were talking
about yes any you mention the manipulative power of television and
that was one of the reasons why
vizag game show did this experiment they wanted to see how manipulative
television is how people get can encouraged to do things that are evil
and that are taboo and not
basically acceptable in any way shape or form so i found the study to be really
great and at the but the reason why they did this is because it's going to be
part of that
television documentary about the minute unit out of television
so well i think that's great and i also
really like your point about connecting it to the story yesterday about the
party urs because that is also an example of mass psychology i have such
mixed feelings about the tea party was because on the one hand i understand
they're not well-educated they're frustrated they're scared so they get
together with other people but then when they get gather horrible things it gets
violent because i don't courage one another right
it's amazing that you can keep going you can keep it ministering those electric
shocks with someone isn't so much pain just because you have an audience
encouraging you to do so