Shocking

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• oo1@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just use the old one hand in the back pocket trick if in doubt. And poke with a dry finger, don’t dip your hand in seawater then grab on to the electrode, you’ll be fine ; basic mains elec safety precautions.

  I wonder if most sparkies are men - I’m not sure i’ve ever met a woman electrician.

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve met a few, and they were/are damned good electricians. Quality was A1, as a former electrician.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know how to phrase this politely, but it comes from a place of love: were they just as nuts as male electricians?

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  • Ava@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Back pocket trick?

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    • rushaction@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s to prevent the person from completing a circuit across their chest if accidentally touching a ground or the like with their other arm. Hearts don’t like that.

      Just a way to reduce risk when working with electricity.

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• Glowstick@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The 35% of men who didn’t do it had previous experiences with electric shocks from fences or electronics

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  • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Archival footage.

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• AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Absolutely no way I’d shock myself in boredom willingly. I have way too much respect for myself… says the man who has on multiple occasions twisted a pencil multiple times in my hair to the point it starts to get the smallest pain reaction.

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  • androogee@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just get someone else to pull your hair, it’s a lot more fun

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• puppy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why don’t the two stats add up to a 100%?

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  • 0laura@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • puppy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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