ng teacher to continue. You must go on, The experiment requires that you go on, is what the teacher is hearing. At what point will he decide to disobey the experimenter and quit the experiment? The results of experiment are overwhelming and they surprised even Milgram. 65% of teachers obeyed experimenters orders and proceeded with experiment to the end shocking the learner with 450 volts. Results shocked Milgram and he decided to proceed with the experiment, making some variations. Here are the results of experiments with different procedures:No feedback100%Baseline men65%Baseline women65%Office building48%Victim in same room40%Physical contact with victim30%Experimenter in remote location21.5%Illegitimate authority20%Two rebels10%Control condition2.5%After conducting all of these additional experiments Milgram concluded that obedience is dependent on four factors: 1.Victims emotional distance. Obedience dropped when learners were in the same room with teachers and it dropped even more when teacher was forced to push learners hand onto a shock plate.2.Whether or not the authority is institutionalized. When the experiment was moved from Yale University to a remote office building obedience once again dropped.3.Authoritys closeness. When the experimenter was giving orders over the phone or was not giving orders at all obedience dropped drastically. 4.Authoritys legitimacy. The fourth factor for determining obedience is legitimacy. When the experimenter who originally started giving orders left in the middle of experiment and his position was assumed by another person whose authority was not conceived as legitimate, obedience once again dropped.Milgrams experiments conclude that an average person is likely to comply with orders of authority no matter the consequences. The results are hard to believe. This would mean that our next door neighbor, a family man with two kids a dog and a station wagon is capable of murder. Or ma...
