Talk:Stanford prison experiment

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I don't know too much about the experiments so I don't feel intellectually comfortable research them and summarising them, but does anyone else feel that our description doesn't really describe the experiments themselves? Having read about them before and knowing the common name, I can infer that some participants were prisoners and others were guards, but apart from that, the article seems a bit lax. άλφαΤαλκ 22:56, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Agree. There's no account of the methodology; any flaws it may have had; or any depth to the conclusions drawn. Unfortunately, I'm unqualified to expand the article. Scherben (talk) 21:39, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Short version? It's a handful of american college students (9 in each group) and Zimbardo was the guy who ran the prison. It is methodologically unsound to the extreme; this article is therefore thoroughly factually inaccurate; eg, claims that the experiment "showed the power of authority" are nonspecific and misleading.
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