The Lifespan of a Lie – Why can’t we escape the Stanford Prison Experiment?
I do not understand why a single experiment is considered good enough for research results in the social sciences. A single experiment with unexpected outcomes must be backed up by replication in order to start becoming interesting.<p>Even if you took the SPE at face value when it was first conducted, surely you have to repeat it before deciding if it is valid. What if the outcome only occurs once in every 100 times and they got lucky that first time? Surely that is somewhat important to know.<p>The most disappointing outcome is that nothing has really changed even after all this time. Each researched is only one great result away from making their career.