Milgram Strengths And Weaknesses

An experiment to test how far a person is willing to go in the name of obedience was conducted at Yale University. People are usually obedient to people with power or above them, therefore, in this experiment an administrator would tell the test subjects to shock the victim, who was obviously, an actor/someone in on the experiment. In this article the author, Stanley Milgram elaborates and describes the experiment.
Like any other article out there, there are weakness along with strengths. The author, Milgram, gave some background information on obedience and explain obedience can make people do positive things, however, can also make people do evil and inhumane things. For example, the article mentioned how Hitler got all those Nazis to be obedient and do such horrible and heartless things. Another strength of this article was that there were some related studies that were mentioned, which is great for anyone that is interested in learning more about this topic. Lasty, the …show more content…
The accomplices that were acting as the learner/victim weren't really described in the article, therefore if the author just added a brief description of the learners the readers can get a better picture of the experiment. Also the subjects were interview after the experiment to make sure they left the lab in a state of well being. Milgram didn’t really elaborate on the interview itself. I think the readers would appreciate knowing what the subjects thought after the experiment was over. Furthermore, the article didn’t really mention if the subjects were informed about the experiment in the end. The subjects, in my opinion deserve an explanation of what the purpose of these procedures