Can’t believe they shocked themselves :o
Meanwhile millenials:
That toy has been in my Amazon cart for like a decade lol
We just want to feel OK?
Trying to figure out what that is.
(In a bad millennial. My mind went to some sort of weird sex toy.)
It’s basically an electric version of hot potato, The item in my Amazon wishlist is called lightning reaction.
Gen X here and I didn’t know it wasn’t a sex toy until I saw your comment.
Looks a bit like some 4-way old fix telephone hub.
Why not both?
I suspect that would be unsanitary?
“Ow, that was painful. What would happen if I press the button again?”
“Not so bad now that I’m expecting it! Wonder if the third time is even less.”
“Still hurts but not as bad as the first or second time… I wonder how long they’re going to be gone… I wonder if it would hurt more or less if I strapped it to a… different location…”
Boooring.
Hey…
ZAP.
Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.
It’s not like they were going to apply a shock that would do damage. Fuck it.
Right? People who are like ‘lol men r dumb’ are the dumb ones. It’s a social experiment, now a Saw puzzle.
Yeah its a low risk experiment. On par with poking an animal corpse with a stick, it makes sense that a solid number of men would immediately go with poke it with a stick. Also it kinda makes sense from an evolutionary point of view that men would be more prone to checking things that are low risk out, one man can make a lot of babies at a time while one woman can only make one baby at a time.
I am now curious if the rate is similar for tans folks.
100% what went through my head when I asked myself if I would also do it.
You gotta be sure, you know? Does it actually shock you? How bad does it hurt? Cant be too dangerous, right? Maybe you’ll even like it, you won’t know for sure unless you hit the button.
Also: does it only work once?
Also, can i get used to it after 4-5 more times?
Can I build up an immunity to electrocution?
Another fool taken by the iocane myth!
How could you choose avoiding a little pain over understanding a magic lightning machine?
Remember that reaction game where you got shocked if you weren’t first to hit the buzzer? We all played that for funsies.
Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.
Don’t forget the one guy who shocked himself 190 times in the 15 minute period.
Don’t kink shame.
13 shocks per minute on average xd literally spamming the button
Literally every 4-5 seconds.
Honestly, I would do it in the first 5 minutes.
I’d wait until they’re out of the room just to be polite, but that’s it
Screw that. I’d shock myself while they explained it just to make sure they weren’t lying.
It reduces interviewer bias if you do it before they get a word in.
“Hello sir. On this table is a–”
BZZZZZT
Do you know how many times I’ve tested the cattle electrified fence just to see what would happen?
Two times?
That isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Experiment, progress, possibly die
The fact that 25% of women did do it and 25% of men didn’t is fascinating to me. What are your favorite explanations here?
I’m going with 25% of people of either gender are just sort of contrarians to their own gender and thus did what they think the opposite one would do. I feel like I would do that.
25% of all people are trans but haven’t realized it yet.
That’s definitely tomboy erasure. And whatever the other direction is called twink sounds kinda gay they’re not necessarily gay they just like interior design.
It’s 35% of men, but close enough.
Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?
They were told what it would do in the study.
Ah, there’s the issue.
It’s like telling a man a knifes sharp, he’s still going to cut his thumb on the edge, because now he needs to know how sharp.
Cutting yourself is the absolutely worst way to assess sharpness. Source: I absolutely happen to have a semi-shaved left forearm right now and the first thing I do when in my mum’s kitchen is to curse her knives they’re practically indistinguishable from pestles. Expensive knives, too. Expensive, not necessarily good, you can max out the grade of steel you’re getting for about 30 bucks for a Chef’s knife. Victorinox Fibrox or F. Dick ProDynamic, that’s what you see line cooks and butchers use.
Testing sharpness by moving your thumb along the edge is more or less valid, sharpness correlates well with how much your neck hairs are on edge if you’re cutting yourself you’re not listening to that. In any case doing that won’t let you assess how smooth and regular the edge is, slicing paper is good for that you’ll feel every jag.
Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.
An article linked here said they associated the results with men’s “higher sensation seeking behavior”. I read that as men are needier.
That’s… just not what that means? At least for the normal definitions of those words.
I licked a 9 volt from the beeping smoke detector the other day to see if it was dead. Nobody was around to impress and it wasn’t for fun, just wanted a quick result.
Would probably shock myself if stuck alone for 15 mins too. Heck, I find those shocking handle games to be hilarious fun.
Note: have ADHD which may or may not be related since I keep forgetting how much getting shocked hurts. Burns leave a mark and are more memorable so I wouldn’t touch anything hot for fun.
Boys rule
Gurls drool
Ick. liberal.chaser.zone
If I know that I’m in an experiment then I must gather information about the experiment.
Yeah, totally right. Although I would like to know, whether the instructor giving them the ‘this button is for shocking yourself’ was a woman or a men. Just ensuring not for any Interviewer bias. …
Anyway, I am recruiting some people for a unique experiment to test something out.
Would
