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Before Stanley Milgram Conducted the Obedience Study, He Surveyed Several

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Before Stanley Milgram conducted the obedience study, he surveyed several psychiatrists, students, and middle-class adults as to how many people they predicted would go all the way to the highest voltage under the instructions of the authority. Milgram's survey found that:


A) psychiatrists accurately predicted that about 45 percent of the participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock.
B) students and middle-class adults accurately predicted that about 25 percent of the participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock.
C) psychiatrists predicted that only one person in a thousand would administer the highest voltage and the nonprofessionals agreed with this statement.
D) psychiatrists, students, and middle-class adults accurately predicted that about 15 percent of the participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock.

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