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.
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.
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.
We would sit around the fire pit taking turns zapping ourselves with the electric fly swatter. Good times!
You chose unwisely.
I’d love to be judgemental about this, but I’d absolutely be in that 25% of women who did it too.
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?
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?
I want to see the percentage who gave themselves more than one. They’re the real heroes of this study.
One guy shocked himself 190 times
That’s more than one every 5 seconds lmao
He probably spammed the button at some point, just to see what that would feel like
When you minmax your masochism stat.
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!
I’d zap my dick and give them a whole new category for their charts!
“Ow, that was painful. What would happen if I press the button again?”
'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.
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.)
Looks a bit like some 4-way old fix telephone hub.
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
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.
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I need to see a chart of how many times they shocked themselves
I just thought of the time machine ordered in Napoleon Dynamite and got a laugh.
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.
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It’s the other way around. It’s not how many people that shocked themselves were women or men, it’s how many men shocked themselves and how many women shocked themselves. so if 50% of men shock themselves and 10% of women shock themselves it’d add up to 60
Yes I understood that in the second reading. I deleted the comment but I guess it was not propagated in time everywhere. Also you can’t add up the men’s and women’s percentages because the number of participates could vary between the two groups.
