As the experiment went on, I learned that the length of hospitalization ranged from 7 to 52 days, with an average of 19 days. Average daily contact with the psychiatrists was an average of seven minutes per day. When the pseudopatients keeps telling the clincians that they are sane they keep ignoring to whatever they are saying. This showed that in no case did doctors or nurses notice there was nothing wrong with the pseudopatients. This lack of insight may have been influenced by the fact that doctors and nurses mostly ignored the pseudopatients when they they tried to speak to them. According to Rosenhan, staff on average only spent 11.3% of their time outside their glassed quarters patients referred to as ‘the cage’ - the nurses interacted
