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[NotAQuisling]

Reading articles when...

Mouse spasm attack!It starts freaking out and clicking and shooting around in circles when I try to use it opening up random things in its unbridled fury. Then...it stops and goes back to normal.
I think it's time for a new mouse.

[Angel Of Death]

Reading articles when...

Mouse spasm attack! It starts freaking out and clicking and shooting around in circles when I try to use it opening up random things in its unbridled fury. Then... it stops and goes back to normal.
I think it's time for a new mouse.

Is your mouse wireless? I had a wireless mouse that did stuff similar to that. It once managed to open 32 files before I could stop it.

[Aklyon]

Reading articles when...

Mouse spasm attack! It starts freaking out and clicking and shooting around in circles when I try to use it opening up random things in its unbridled fury. Then... it stops and goes back to normal.
I think it's time for a new mouse.

Is your mouse wireless? I had a wireless mouse that did stuff similar to that. It once managed to open 32 files before I could stop it.

All my old wireless mice do are randomly spaz out into non-responsiveness, not clickspam. Seems like I've gotten the luckier of the two possibilites.

[NotAQuisling]

Nah its connected and very old. The scroll wheels broken and will randomly jump around and scroll about.
At one point in time it plain stopped working so I had to use the numpad mouse which is how I managed to stop it in its berserk rage.
I need a priest.

[Greiger]

High anxiety over school and work and call in to take a day off from work to chill.   Well what the hell? somehow calling in and knowing I have the full day off to relax just made me more anxious.  That makes no damn sense.

[RedWarrior0]

Time for another idiot criminal of the day

[Heliman]

My WTF:
Milgram obedience experiment.
Sometimes, Human psychology is the scariest thing of all.

[SalmonGod]

My WTF:
Milgram obedience experiment.
Sometimes, Human psychology is the scariest thing of all.

Stanford Prison Experiment is also very important and disturbing.

The majority of people need to be much more aware of the lessons of these two events.

[Lord Shonus]

Both of those experiments have ome under very hevy criticism for flawed methodology.

[Heliman]

Both of those experiments have ome under very hevy criticism for flawed methodology.

The Milgram experiment has come under heavy criticism? I've only found one site claiming that the Milgram experiment was flawed, and their argument was filled with holes and inductive reasoning.

[Virex]

A man chooses, a slave obeys.

If I recall correctly, the issue with it is that it took a loooong time for any form of debriefing to occur after the experiment. For all those people knew for months on end, they had personally killed or at least seriously shocked the crap out of some "victims" who probably didn't have a clue what they themselves were getting into and the participants had to live with that knowledge until they were told much later that it wasn't real.

That, and it took a lot of persistence for participants to remove themselves from the experiment. Nowadays, you can't be obstructed from removing yourself from an experiment.

Wiki says that recent reenactments of the experiment found roughly the same obedience figures, even when they applied real shocks to a puppy. Interestingly enough, Western countries show far higher obedience levels than many Far-Eastern and some Muslim countries.

[Greiger]

I remember that experiment being mentioned in psychology class about a year ago.  Teacher used it as example of immorality in experiments.  I didn't actually think the experiment was all that immoral, nobody was physically harmed and I can't think of any way to perform the experiment without contaminating the result.

It was told it was immoral because of a lack of full disclosure.  But if that was the issue how does drug research work?  When they compare the effects of a drug to a placebo control they have to tell the placebo takers they are taking a placebo?  But that can't be right because it contaminates the experiment.

I agree that there should be morality in experiments, but that experiment did everything they could to keep moral while still getting a useable result.  The not telling the people until a time has passes also may have been to keep from contaminating the experiment.  It's hard to run the experiment when after the first few sets of people did their thing, everybody and their mother knew exactly what was going on.

P.S. I dunno, maybe i'm just a terrible person.

[TheBronzePickle]

Unfortunately, certain facets of modern scientific ethics make certain experiments impossible. Which is why I fully support mad science. No pesky ethics means more options.

[Bdthemag]

Although the experiment is kind of creepy, if I did it i'd probally walk away with better insight. I'd personally know first hand that just doing what your told isn't always a good thing.

Oh, and it would be one hell of a practical joke.

[Dakk]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ITS LIKE GAME OF THRONES GUYSE