When Stanley Milgram polled a group of psychiatrists before his obedience experiments were conducted, the psychiatrists predicted that less than one percent of those tested would obey when, in reality, 65 percent obeyed completely by going all the way to the 450-volt level.

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Before conducting his experiments on obedience, Stanley Milgram asked a group of psychiatrists to predict the outcome. They estimated that only a very small fraction of participants (less than 1%) would fully obey the instructions to administer the highest shock level. However, the actual experiments showed that a much larger percentage, about 65%, were willing to obey authority figures to the extent of administering what they believed were extremely painful electric shocks to another person.

When Stanley Milgram Polled a Group of Psychiatrists Before His