Workbook Edits for “Making Good Decisions”: Author Profile: Stanley Milgram for Volume 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity
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For returning readers and subscribers, this post presents the Author Profile for Stanley Milgram from the workbook for Vol. 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity.
- See below the downloadable pdf file for this two-page section, as well as a summary description of the section.
Volume 1 – Part I: Author Profile: Stanley Milgram
- Author profiles use the summary version of the Template for Reading Research Papers (See workbook for Volume 1 – Part V) to present the history, and meaning of the life and work of key authors selected from the more than 140 authors mentioned in Volume 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity.
This Author Profile present the life and work of Stanley Milgram (1933 - 1984). In his 2021 book, Augustine Brannigan provides a review of scholarship in Social Psychology to show that the small sample, laboratory experiments based on deceiving the subjects do not work as replicable studies of real-life competencies and situations, but instead act as dramatization of a process of self-confirmation for the researcher. This issue affects laboratory experiments as well as field experiments that achieved widespread fame as a basis for top-down interventions. Brannigan’s critical examination of Milgram’s obedience experiment provides yet another example of the “Willful Ignorance”, Error & Deceit that come from prescribing too-good-to-check “Small Worlds” findings to “Large World” real-life situations. What’s your assumption about the percentage of research papers that will prove to have nonreproducible results: 95% (like John Ioannidis), 80% (as in the 80/20 rule), other? When making individual, business, or investment decisions, do not seek a second opinion, seek a different opinion.
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