Educated kids more likely to get stuck in refrigerators

[ecoli]

BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG CHILDREN UNDER CONDITIONS SIMULATING ENTRAPMENT IN REFRIGERATORS

 

Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entrapment in refrigerators was studied in order to develop standards for inside releasing devices, in accordance with Public Law 930 of the 84th Congress.

 

Using a specially designed enclosure, 201 children 2 to 5 years of age took part in tests in which six devices were used, including two developed in the course of this experiment as the result of observation of behavior.

 

Success in escaping was dependent on the device, a child's age and size and his behavior. It was also influenced by the educational level of the parents, a higher rate of success being associated with fewer years of education attained by mother and father combined. Three major types of behavior were observed: (1) inaction, with no effort or only slight effort to get out (24%); (2) purposeful effort to escape (39%); (3) violent action both directed toward escape and undirected (37%).

 

I love this kind of stuff.

 

source: Journal of Pediatrics

[Ben Banana]

I just laughed when I read the title, but it got better.

[imatfaal]

Good find. I was wondering what in hell was going through the Research Ethics Committee's mind when they granted the ok for the experiment till I saw this

• Received January 27, 1958.
• Accepted April 1, 1958.

I would love to know what percentage of the seminal work of the early years of scientific research would actually be allowed to proceed now - I have actually seen people reduced to tears reading about some of the early child-psychology experiments and as for the Stanford Prison Experiment...

[Appolinaria]

I have actually seen people reduced to tears reading about some of the early child-psychology experiments and as for the Stanford Prison Experiment...

 

 

The Stanford Prison Experiment was child's play.....

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

[ecoli]

They specifically mention no lasting psychological harm during the followup. This is obviously small time stuff compared to stuff in the wikipedia article.

[John Cuthber]

If the experiment won't kill a few people it's probably not worth doing.

http://www.lab-initio.com/screen_res/nz212.jpg

[Appolinaria]

They specifically mention no lasting psychological harm during the followup. This is obviously small time stuff compared to stuff in the wikipedia article.

 

Yes. I was just noting that there are much worse experiments to cry about.