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meami1234
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
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The Milgram experiments. They are now noted to have had some flaws in the methodology, like the Stanford Prison experiments (my second pick), but interesting nevertheless.
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A few years ago some group did an experiment to see if prayer from one group of people had any observable effect on ill groups of people in one or more hospitals. There was no correlation found between prayer and the patients getting better. How surprising. <sarcasm> If I remember correctly (which I may not), there was a group of sick people who were told they were being prayed for by one group of pray-ers (uhh, people who pray, that is). I think the sick people who knew they were prayed for actually got sicker. A second set of pray-ers and sick people was included in the study in which the latter were not informed that they were being prayed for, and no differences in their health was observed. [Note: If you notice that any of this is incorrect, correct me. I'll correct this answer and then give you mad props and a prayer of thanks.]
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Tests administered on Twins, to see if they really are telepathic etc
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Answerbag.
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Space Cadets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadets This was a tv reality show in which contestants were led to believe that they would be going into space. They were carefully selected, following a rigorous program of tests, and only those who appeared most gullible were selected for "Space Training". They were then taken to a secret "russian space training camp" and eventually "sent into space". What I have never been able to work out was whether the experiment was to see whether the participants themselves were gullible enough to believe they were going to space, or indeed whether the TV audience was gullible enough to believe that the participants believed they were going to space. It really was a fascinating programme though - on so many levels!
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