In "On Being Sane in Insane Places," David Rosenhan describes how:
A) although it may be difficult for the rest of us, psychiatrists can easily differentiate between those who are sane and those who are insane.
B) researchers posing as "pseudopatients" in a mental hospital, but otherwise acting normally, were nonetheless treated as insane by the hospital staff.
C) mental patients were unable to determine who among them were really researchers posing as "pseudopatients."
D) researchers, working in mental hospitals, started to develop higher rates of mental illness.

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In the article, David Rosenhan describes how he and other researchers posed as "pseudopatients" in mental hospitals and acted normally, but were still diagnosed with mental illness and treated as insane by the hospital staff. This illustrates the difficulties in accurately diagnosing and treating mental illness and the potential for bias or labels to affect perceptions of patients. Option A is incorrect because the article actually suggests that even psychiatrists may struggle to differentiate between sanity and insanity. Option C is also incorrect because the study did not involve mental patients trying to identify which individuals were researchers. Option D is incorrect as there is no evidence in the article to suggest that researchers started developing higher rates of mental illness.

In "On Being Sane in Insane Places," David Rosenhan Describes