Shocking

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• AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.

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  • Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also: does it only work once?

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    • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Remember that reaction game where you got shocked if you weren’t first to hit the buzzer? We all played that for funsies.

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  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not like they were going to apply a shock that would do damage. Fuck it.

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    • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      100% what went through my head when I asked myself if I would also do it.

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    • redisdead@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Right? People who are like ‘lol men r dumb’ are the dumb ones. It’s a social experiment, now a Saw puzzle.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When I was in grad school, some of us were over 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. (Apparently 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.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • cadekat@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s a whole sexual kink associated with those collars. I’m just sayin’

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren’t wearing shoes. Just FYI.

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    • Zoot@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but it also puts you one step closer to death.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I once stepped too close to an electric fence, barefoot, right after it rained. OW.

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  • smort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We would sit around the fire pit taking turns zapping ourselves with the electric fly swatter

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  • tinyVoltron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You chose unwisely.

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  • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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• frickineh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d love to be judgemental about this, but I’d absolutely be in that 25% of women who did it too.

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• snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• Shanedino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The best part is “at least one”. What’s the breakdown of more than one shock?

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  • Shanedino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Found underlying data.

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    • thessnake03@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m going to need the graph above that. How many shocked themselves to get aroused?

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    • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If I’m reading this right, the average bored person shocked themselves every 2 minutes?

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• Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t even started any 15 minute waiting period and I already want to try the electric shock

  Then again I’m also the guy who stuck the car cigarette lighter in, and then pulled it out and touched it with my thumb; I’ve literally done that twice too

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  • lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Twice? But…why…?

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    • linucs@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Remove outliers

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• kubica@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I know that I'm in an experiment then I must gather information about the experiment.

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  • Zahtu@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I want to see the percentage who gave themselves more than one. They’re the real heroes of this study.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One guy shocked himself 190 times

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    • scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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

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    • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When you minmax your masochism stat.

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  • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All of these participants had received a sample of the shock and reported that they would pay to avoid being shocked again.

    From: news.virginia.edu/…/doing-something-better-doing-… , so the chart is actually measuring the second shock.

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, those are the scientists. And yes, they’re the heroes of this study!

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• ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t forget the one guy who shocked himself 190 times in the 15 minute period.

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  • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t kink shame.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    13 shocks per minute on average xd literally spamming the button

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    • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Literally every 4-5 seconds.

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• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Ow, that was painful. What would happen if I press the button again?”

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  • Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Difference Image

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Not so bad now that I’m expecting it! Wonder if the third time is even less.”

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    • MrPibb@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Still hurts but not as bad as the first or second time… I wonder how long they’re going to be gone… I wonder if it would hurt more or less if I strapped it to a… different location…”

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d zap my dick and give them a whole new category for their charts!

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can’t believe they shocked themselves :o

  Meanwhile millenials:

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Trying to figure out what that is.

    (In a bad millennial. My mind went to some sort of weird sex toy.)

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    • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gen X here and I didn’t know it wasn’t a sex toy until I saw your comment.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Looks a bit like some 4-way old fix telephone hub.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s basically an electric version of hot potato, The item in my Amazon wishlist is called lightning reaction.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We just want to feel OK?

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That toy has been in my Amazon cart for like a decade lol

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• JoseALerma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  'Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s a guy,

  — Once-ler, 2012

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  • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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• Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some buddies and I once spent an evening passing around a bug zapper and having a go at it, to the concern of the one girl present. We were like 22 tbf

  Dudes shock

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• ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would like to see a study done with several groups:

  1. People who read multiple books each year
  2. People who watch lots of video essays
  3. People who listen to podcasts
  4. People who prefer short-form content such as TikTok
  5. Veterans
  6. Educators, such as teachers or professors
  7. Librarians
  8. A control group composed of people who either do not fit into the other categories

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• randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m really surprised no one here said they would pull down their pants and start violently jerking off while intently staring at the researchers through the one-way window thing.

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  • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you think we got the job?

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• Pyro@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would honestly do it in the first 5 minutes.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d wait until they’re out of the room just to be polite, but that’s it

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    • tinyVoltron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Screw that. I’d shock myself while they explained it just to make sure they weren’t lying.

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• Coasting0942@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?

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  • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That actually knocks out knowledge AND curiosity. It’s just what the paper says-- boredom.

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  • TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They were told what it would do in the study.

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    • NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    An article linked here said they associated the results with men’s “higher sensation seeking behavior”. I read that as men are needier.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s… just not what that means? At least for the normal definitions of those words.

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• robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  where’s the 2 or more chart?

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• TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Boys rule

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  • fossphi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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    • booty@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ick. Liberal.chaser.zone

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gurls drool

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• alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I need to see a chart of how many times they shocked themselves

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Simpsons did it.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Where is the shock happening? I might be pressing the button a lot if it’s to the prostate.

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• muzzle@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you know how many times I’ve tested the cattle electrified fence just to see what would happen?

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  • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Two times?

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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• booty@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Checks out. I’m a man and I would definitely administer at least one shock to myself. Probably upwards of ten.

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• MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Boooring.

  Hey…

  ZAP.

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• 7bicycles@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The fact that 25% of women did do it and 25% of men didn’t is fascinating to me. What are your favorite explanations here?

  I’m going with 25% of people of either gender are just sort of contrarians to their own gender and thus did what they think the opposite one would do. I feel like I would do that.

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  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    25% of all people are trans but haven’t realized it yet.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s definitely tomboy erasure. And whatever the other direction is called twink sounds kinda gay they’re not necessarily gay they just like interior design.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Experiment, progress, possibly die

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• ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There is a funny sub at the other place /r/whywomenlivelonger. Or something similar.

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• OopsAllTwix@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just thought of the time machine ordered in Napoleon Dynamite and got a laugh.

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