The Mouse Utopia Experiments | Down the Rabbit Hole
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[video]https://youtu.be/NgGLFozNM2o[/video]
Some interesting yet incredibly disturbing stuff
That was interesting but you could not get away with an experiment like that today, and I don't just mean because of how inhumane it is. Calhoun had already made up his mind on the results of the experiment and was not neutral at all with how he wrote the report. It was interesting how different, emotional, and politicized his reports and experiments are compared to what I have read for my classes.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;52757061]That was interesting but you could not get away with an experiment like that today, and I don't just mean because of how inhumane it is. Calhoun had already made up his mind on the results of the experiment and was not neutral at all with how he wrote the report. It was interesting how different, emotional, and politicized his reports and experiments are compared to what I have read for my classes.[/QUOTE]
This is one reason why double-blind is a thing.
It's not ever going to be 1:1 and I'm not sure that Calhoun had made up his mind per se, but he definitely had preconceived notions and set the experimentation to enforce those notions heavily.
However when you look at Japan or India post colonialism, there are pretty clear and distinct parallels toward enforced and reinforced social status and behaviors creating sharp and very long lasting responses and divisions along social lines, though most of those behaviors aren't precisely in-line with what he recorded with the mice.
[QUOTE=27X;52757107]It's not ever going to be 1:1 and I'm not sure that Calhoun had made up his mind per se, but he definitely had preconceived notions and set the experimentation to enforce those notions heavily.
However when you look at Japan or India post colonialism, there are pretty clear and distinct parallels toward enforced and reinforced social status and behaviors creating sharp and very long lasting responses and divisions along social lines, though most of those behaviors aren't precisely in-line with what he recorded with the mice.[/QUOTE]
We may even be seeing a semi-replication of males losing their drive to reproduce in places like Japan. Their incredibly low birthrate is consistently becoming a bigger and bigger issue. If it continues, we may very well see their societal system have a generalized collapse in the next 50 or so years.
In fact, wealth and ease of life seem to correlate quite well with overall lower birth rates, which is interesting, because normally wealth directly results in higher populations.
"If opportunities for role fulfilment fall far short of the demand by those capable of filling roles, and having expectancies to do so, only violence and disruption of social organization can follow."
Rats are pretty damn scary, though.
Rats behave a lot more like people than people are generally willing to acknowledge.
Could this theory be applied to Valve's management and employees? I mean, sans the reproductive cycle.
[QUOTE=Zergeant;52757450]Could this theory be applied to Valve's management and employees? I mean, sans the reproductive cycle.[/QUOTE]
does that mean working at valve could make me gay?
where do i apply
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