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.
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.
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?
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
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 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.
“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.”
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.
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
'Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s a guy,
— Once-ler, 2012
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.
“Hello sir. On this table is a–”
BZZZZZT
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.
How do you think we got the job?
Where is the shock happening? I might be pressing the button a lot if it’s to the prostate.
I need to see a chart of how many times they shocked themselves
Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?
Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.
That actually knocks out knowledge AND curiosity. It’s just what the paper says-- boredom.
An article linked here said they associated the results with men’s “higher sensation seeking behavior”. I read that as men are needier.
That’s… just not what that means? At least for the normal definitions of those words.
Boooring.
Hey…
ZAP.
