Can’t believe they shocked themselves :o
Meanwhile millenials:
We just want to feel OK?
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.
Why not both?
I suspect that would be unsanitary?
It’s basically an electric version of hot potato, The item in my Amazon wishlist is called lightning reaction.
That toy has been in my Amazon cart for like a decade lol
Would
Boys rule
Gurls drool
Ick. liberal.chaser.zone
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.
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?
Remember that reaction game where you got shocked if you weren’t first to hit the buzzer? We all played that for funsies.
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.
Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?
They were told what it would do in the study.
Ah, there’s the issue.
It’s like telling a man a knifes sharp, he’s still going to cut his thumb on the edge, because now he needs to know how sharp.
Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.
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.
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.
Don’t forget the one guy who shocked himself 190 times in the 15 minute period.
13 shocks per minute on average xd literally spamming the button
Literally every 4-5 seconds.
Don’t kink shame.
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.
It allegedly hurts you much more than them due to differences in skin thickness and moisture as well as them having a load of hair in the way
We would sit around the fire pit taking turns zapping ourselves with the electric fly swatter. Good times!
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.
There’s a whole sexual kink associated with those collars. I’m just sayin’
If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren’t wearing shoes. Just FYI.
I once stepped too close to an electric fence, barefoot, right after it rained. OW.
Yeah but it also puts you one step closer to death.
You chose unwisely.
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.
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
Boooring.
Hey…
ZAP.
The best part is “at least one”. What’s the breakdown of more than one shock?
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.
I’m going to need the graph above that. How many shocked themselves to get aroused?
So a shock reduced arousal but increased boredom?
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
Checks out. I’m a man and I would definitely administer at least one shock to myself. Probably upwards of ten.
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
Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.