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.
Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.
Remember that reaction game where you got shocked if you weren’t first to hit the buzzer? We all played that for funsies.
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?
Or shocked themselves 23 times consecutively and then passed out for the hour
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 guy was running his own study. “How many times can I shock myself before I breach the ethical limits of the study and they cut the session short”.
He underestimated their resolve though, clearly.
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
“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.”
'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.)
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
I’d zap my dick and give them a whole new category for their charts!
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.
Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?
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.
Experiment, progress, possibly die
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.
The 35% of men who didn’t do it had previous experiences with electric shocks from fences or electronics
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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.
