Shawn Ryan

Keep going.

And then these people would get to the end, this 450 volts, and they'd shock him.

He's like, well, that's it.

We reached the end.

The guy in the lab coat says, please continue until you've read all of the questions on the quiz.

So this guy, they think, might be dead in the other room.

They're just keeping going at this 450 volts in the other room.

So before the experiment started, the psychologists, psychiatrists got together and formed a hypothesis.

And they said, who's going to go all the way?

And they said 0.8% or 0.08% of people will go all the way.

67% of people went all the way.

Holy shit.

And they redid the experiment.

They said, oh, well, there's an inherent belief of safety because it's in a college.

They've done it in apartment buildings and basements and office buildings with college-educated people, high school-educated people, all income levels.

About 67% of people won't go.

Why do you think that is?

It's two factors.

It's number one, our inherent obedience to authority or perceived authority.

Guy's in a lab coat, I'm at this thing, the guy's in charge, the guy's tall, whatever it is.