Before conducting his classic research on obedience to authority, Milgram conducted a survey in which he asked a number of psychiatrists to predict what percentage of people would "go all the way" and administer the highest levels of shocks. The psychiatrists in his survey predicted that ____ would do so.

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The psychiatrists predicted that only a very small percentage, about 0.01% (1 in 1000), would administer the highest levels of shocks, underestimating the actual results of Milgram's experiment.

Before Conducting His Classic Research on Obedience to Authority, Milgram