Social Experiments.

[Jasmin Cottontail]

I've been seeing a lot of social experiments circulating over the web and some of them goes viral. I've seen one about a man who did a social experiment pretending to hook up with girls that he does not know. What he did was he approached some girls and told them that he wanted to date them or hang out with them and most of the girls didn't want to talk to him until a man (his accomplice) came and ask him for money and he pull out his wallet where there is a huge sum of money and gave it to the man, then the man took off. So from that, most of the girls changed their mind and talked to the guy and agreed to hang out with him. Then when that happened, he told the girls that it was a social experiment and it only proved that the girls are b**ches and just after his money.

And there are more actually. So what do you think about these social experiments? I mean what is their main goal in doing these experiments?

 

[TheKnight]

I think most of them are fake. A lot of them have been caught red-handed faking a social experiment. Like this guy right here:

 

[Alex]

These days it appears most are doing this to make a name for themselves on YouTube, and while some are thought provoking, do we really need them? Maybe we do, but while some go viral is it right that these people go around and do this? I think so many are staged in any case, but perhaps they do make some people think twice before they act?

 

[tyche]

Most people who do that on Youtube are just hoping to get attention. Or they have a lot of time on their hands to create such videos. Sure, their goal is to see how humans react to certain staged situations, but if you think about it, it's really trivial in general, eventhough their aim is to expose people's true colors in general.

 

[Lyndra]

This sort of thing really annoys me. For it to be a valid social experiment, he'd need the participants to give consent to take part in it before hand, a control group, and a double blind - the people who select the participants and perform the experiment should be different people to the person who proposed it. It would also have to be done with multiple different men as well as women, in multiple locations.

Instead this sounds more like someone who wants views on a video, and might well be staged with actresses since a lot of the marketing ones are - after all in most places the women have to give their consent to be shown on film like that (Star Trek IV has a great example).

I do find the TV show "What would you do?" interesting even if some of their setups are questionable, just because you normally learn that people are better than most people think.