this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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"We just learned" is a bit of a stretch. Here is a Medium post from 2020, which cites previous interviews and Jon Ronson's 2015 book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed," that explains the problems with the infamous experiment: https://medium.com/invisible-illness/have-we-gotten-the-stanford-prison-experiment-all-wrong-fad09471e79c
Edit: Ah, title is straight from the Vox title, and that article is from 2018
Before your edit I was about to say that maybe the journalists just saw the video fact checking all Somerson videos where they learned that the research was a fraud.
Yup. My psychology/sociology classes 5+ years ago were teaching that this experiment was super flawed