Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger · chapter 4 · id poor-charlies-almanack-c4-05-munger-describes-the-milgram-o

“Munger describes the Milgram obedience experiments as a definitive demonstration of authority-misinfluence, where 65% of participants administered seemingly lethal electric shocks.”

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Receipts

Milgram, 'Behavioral Study of Obedience,' JASP (1963)DOI registry: valid

26 of 40 subjects (65%) obeyed fully, administering the maximum 450-volt shock.

Perry, 'Behind the Shock Machine' (2013)FLAGGED: dead link (404)

The famous 65% figure came from just one of Milgram's 23 experimental conditions. In other conditions, obedience ranged from 0% to 92.5%.

Burger, 'Replicating Milgram,' American Psychologist (2009)DOI registry: valid

In a partial replication stopping at 150V, 70% continued to the cutoff point.

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