# Threshing the Stanford Prison Experiment: What really happened?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshing-the-stanford-prison-experiment-what-really-happened/965025>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshing-the-stanford-prison-experiment-what-really-happened/965025 "2022-05-24T20:12:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshing-the-stanford-prison-experiment-what-really-happened/965025/1 "2022-05-24T20:12:02Z")

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_ **Wheat** _  
Actual experience, accurate results, and reasonable conclusions

_vs_.

**Chaff**  
False reporting, actual fraud, and what/how conclusions were arrived at.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshing-the-stanford-prison-experiment-what-really-happened/965025/2 "2022-05-24T21:23:08Z")

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wut??

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshing-the-stanford-prison-experiment-what-really-happened/965025/3 "2022-05-24T21:59:27Z")

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[Moderating]  
This OP, as it stands, is incoherent, and any discussion in this thread is likely to end up being about how incoherent the OP is. I’m therefore going to close this. If you can construct the OP to be coherent, you’re welcome to open a new thread.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threshing-the-stanford-prison-experiment-what-really-happened/965025/4 "2022-05-24T21:59:34Z")

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