Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.
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?
Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.
Remember that reaction game where you got shocked if you weren’t first to hit the buzzer? We all played that for funsies.
It’s not like they were going to apply a shock that would do damage. Fuck it.
100% what went through my head when I asked myself if I would also do 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.
When I was in grad school, a bunch of us were at the house of a guy with an invisible fence for his dog. Someone wondered if it was cruel and that led to each of the grad students there except me putting on the dog’s collar and then crossing the fence. (The consensus was that it really hurts, but it isn’t agonizing.) At the time I knew that not shocking myself was, in some sense, the smart thing to do, but in retrospect I regret being a boring dork.
If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren’t wearing shoes. Just FYI.
Yeah but it also puts you one step closer to death.
We would sit around the fire pit taking turns zapping ourselves with the electric fly swatter. Good times!
You chose unwisely.
It allegedly hurts you much more than them due to differences in skin thickness and moisture as well as them having a load of hair in the way
I’d love to be judgemental about this, but I’d absolutely be in that 25% of women who did it too.
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.
The best part is “at least one”. What’s the breakdown of more than one shock?
I’m going to need the graph above that. How many shocked themselves to get aroused?
So a shock reduced arousal but increased boredom?
Bored people give themselves a bunch of painful shocks and when that isn’t enough to feel alive they increase the amperage of the shocks. Really the perfect metaphor of all of us using doomscrolling on social media.
If I’m reading this right, the average bored person shocked themselves every 2 minutes?
Or shocked themselves 23 times consecutively and then passed out for the hour
I haven’t even started any 15 minute waiting period and I already want to try the electric shock
Then again I’m also the guy who stuck the car cigarette lighter in, and then pulled it out and touched it with my thumb; I’ve literally done that twice too
Twice? But…why…?
Remove outliers
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.
I want to see the percentage who gave themselves more than one. They’re the real heroes of this study.
All of these participants had received a sample of the shock and reported that they would pay to avoid being shocked again.
From: https://news.virginia.edu/content/doing-something-better-doing-nothing-most-people-study-shows , so the chart is actually measuring the second shock.
Oh, those are the scientists. And yes, they’re the heroes of this study!
“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…”
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.
Can’t believe they shocked themselves :o
Meanwhile millenials:
Trying to figure out what that is.
(In a bad millennial. My mind went to some sort of weird sex toy.)
Gen X here and I didn’t know it wasn’t a sex toy until I saw your comment.
It’s basically an electric version of hot potato, The item in my Amazon wishlist is called lightning reaction.
We just want to feel something, OK?
That toy has been in my Amazon cart for like a decade lol
'Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s a guy,
— Once-ler, 2012
While I know that’s not how stats work, I find it completely correct to belive that one women gave herself a shock from 4 participants, and 70 men did.
I would like to see a study done with several groups:
- People who read multiple books each year
- People who watch lots of video essays
- People who listen to podcasts
- People who prefer short-form content such as TikTok
- Veterans
- Educators, such as teachers or professors
- Librarians
- A control group composed of people who either do not fit into the other categories
I’ve heard a lot of people claiming some of these groups are better than others of these groups, but I’m rooting for a null result.
I’m really surprised no one here said they would pull down their pants and start violently jerking off while intently staring at the researchers through the one-way window thing.
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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.
