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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 144 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.

[-] Technus@lemmy.zip 86 points 2 years ago

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?

[-] TealTallMachine@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

Also, can i get used to it after 4-5 more times?

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Can I build up an immunity to electrocution?

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 32 points 2 years ago

How could you choose avoiding a little pain over understanding a magic lightning machine?

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.

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[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 years ago

It's not like they were going to apply a shock that would do damage. Fuck it.

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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 128 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

I once voluntarily shocked myself with a dog collar at a party. It was kind of fun, so I did it about 20 more times and shocked other people with it too. In my defense, I was drunk.

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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 years ago

If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren't wearing shoes. Just FYI.

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[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago

I'd love to be judgemental about this, but I'd absolutely be in that 25% of women who did it too.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 48 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Shanedino@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

The best part is "at least one". What's the breakdown of more than one shock?

[-] Shanedino@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago
[-] thessnake03@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

I'm going to need the graph above that. How many shocked themselves to get aroused?

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] kubica@fedia.io 40 points 2 years ago

If I know that I'm in an experiment then I must gather information about the experiment.

[-] Zahtu@feddit.org 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago

I want to see the percentage who gave themselves more than one. They're the real heroes of this study.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

One guy shocked himself 190 times

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 18 points 2 years ago

That guy was running his own study. “How many times can I shock myself before I breach the ethical limits of the study and they cut the session short”.

He underestimated their resolve though, clearly.

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[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago
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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago

"Ow, that was painful. What would happen if I press the button again?"

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 15 points 2 years ago

"Not so bad now that I'm expecting it! Wonder if the third time is even less."

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[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

Can't believe they shocked themselves :o

Meanwhile millenials:

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Trying to figure out what that is.

(In a bad millennial. My mind went to some sort of weird sex toy.)

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[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We just want to feel something, OK?

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[-] Mango@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

I'd zap my dick and give them a whole new category for their charts!

[-] JoseALerma@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

'Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well, that's because he's a guy,

— Once-ler, 2012

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Some buddies and I once spent an evening passing around a bug zapper and having a go at it, to the concern of the one girl present. We were like 22 tbf

Dudes shock

[-] Pyro@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly, I would do it in the first 5 minutes.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 years ago

I'd wait until they're out of the room just to be polite, but that's it

[-] tinyVoltron@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Screw that. I'd shock myself while they explained it just to make sure they weren't lying.

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[-] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 19 points 2 years ago

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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[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 17 points 2 years ago

Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?

[-] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.

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[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

They were told what it would do in the study.

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[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

where's the 2 or more chart?

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago
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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

I need to see a chart of how many times they shocked themselves

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 2 years ago

Where is the shock happening? I might be pressing the button a lot if it's to the prostate.

[-] muzzle@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Do you know how many times I've tested the cattle electrified fence just to see what would happen?

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