Before Stanley Milgram Conducted His Study on Obedience, He Asked

Before Stanley Milgram conducted his study on obedience, he asked a number of psychiatrists, students, and middle-class adults how many people would go all the way to the highest voltage under the instructions of the authority. Milgram found that:

A) psychiatrists accurately predicted that about 45% of the participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock.
B) psychiatrists predicted that 1 person in 1000 would administer the highest voltage and the nonprofessionals agreed with this statement.
C) students and middle-class adults accurately predicted that about 25% of the participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock.
D) psychiatrists, students, and middle-class adults accurately predicted that about 15% of the participants would inflict what they thought were dangerous amounts of shock.

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