Critics of the Stanford prison study argue that
A)the methodology was flawed because participants were not randomly assigned to either the prisoner condition or the guard condition.
B)by stopping the study after six days instead of letting it continue for the two-week experimental period,the researchers had not allowed enough time for dramatic change to occur.
C)a makeshift prison in the basement of a university building is not an effective setting to investigate the factors involved.
D)briefing the guards at the beginning of the study influenced their behavior,and the study merely showed how willingly people obey orders.

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Critics argue that briefing the guards at the beginning of the study influenced their behavior and that the study merely showed how willingly people obey orders. This suggests that the study may not have demonstrated what it set out to investigate, and therefore its findings may be questionable.

Critics of the Stanford Prison Study Argue That