After watching The Cut’s catalogue of videos, I knew exactly the sort of concept I’d be gunning for. I thought Stanford prison experiment, I thought Milgram experiment, I thought The Third Wave experiment. All of these were fantastic ideas to be recreated, yet the law forbids things like that from being conducted on school grounds, so here is my humble alternative:
Human Trivia:
The experiment will involve a group of 5 participants who do not know each other well. After everyone has made each others acquaintances and talked a bit, the group will be seated in a circle and given a list of 10 embarrassing/ intimate facts about each person in the group.
One at a time, each person will step up in front of the others. The other 4 people will deliberate to assign two of those 10 facts to that person. The person being judged cannot make any affirmations or direct comments about the deliberation. They cannot answer questions.
The 5 people should be diverse in political leaning, sexual orientation, gender, etc but perhaps with unexpected combinations. For personality types, we’d look for a funny, outspoken blowhard, a sensible and reserved person, a leader, a free thinker and a sensitive, neurotic person.
I am hoping to highlight the shallow, preconcieved stereotypes people make about each which may not be true. We’re also hoping for a little drama and fun.
I hope you will consider my prompt, though to be honest I’d rather you go with recreating the Milgram experiment
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