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Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.

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You gotta be sure, you know? Does it actually shock you? How bad does it hurt? Cant be too dangerous, right? Maybe you’ll even like it, you won’t know for sure unless you hit the button.

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Also: does it only work once?

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Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.

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Remember that reaction game where you got shocked if you weren’t first to hit the buzzer? We all played that for funsies.

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It’s not like they were going to apply a shock that would do damage. Fuck it.

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100% what went through my head when I asked myself if I would also do it.

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Right? People who are like ‘lol men r dumb’ are the dumb ones. It’s a social experiment, now a Saw puzzle.

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Yeah its a low risk experiment. On par with poking an animal corpse with a stick, it makes sense that a solid number of men would immediately go with poke it with a stick. Also it kinda makes sense from an evolutionary point of view that men would be more prone to checking things that are low risk out, one man can make a lot of babies at a time while one woman can only make one baby at a time.

I am now curious if the rate is similar for tans folks.

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When I was in grad school, a bunch of us were at the house of a guy with an invisible fence for his dog. Someone wondered if it was cruel and that led to each of the grad students there except me putting on the dog’s collar and then crossing the fence. (The consensus was that it really hurts, but it isn’t agonizing.) At the time I knew that not shocking myself was, in some sense, the smart thing to do, but in retrospect I regret being a boring dork.

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I once voluntarily shocked myself with a dog collar at a party. It was kind of fun, so I did it about 20 more times and shocked other people with it too. In my defense, I was drunk.

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There’s a whole sexual kink associated with those collars. I’m just sayin’

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The electroshock tag is a thing on nhentai for a reason.

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If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren’t wearing shoes. Just FYI.

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Yeah but it also puts you one step closer to death.

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I once stepped too close to an electric fence, barefoot, right after it rained. OW.

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We would sit around the fire pit taking turns zapping ourselves with the electric fly swatter. Good times!

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It allegedly hurts you much more than them due to differences in skin thickness and moisture as well as them having a load of hair in the way

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You chose unwisely.

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I’d love to be judgemental about this, but I’d absolutely be in that 25% of women who did it too.

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The best part is “at least one”. What’s the breakdown of more than one shock?

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I’m going to need the graph above that. How many shocked themselves to get aroused?

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Bored people give themselves a bunch of painful shocks and when that isn’t enough to feel alive they increase the amperage of the shocks. Really the perfect metaphor of all of us using doomscrolling on social media.

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If I’m reading this right, the average bored person shocked themselves every 2 minutes?

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Or shocked themselves 23 times consecutively and then passed out for the hour

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If I know that I’m in an experiment then I must gather information about the experiment.

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Yeah, totally right. Although I would like to know, whether the instructor giving them the ‘this button is for shocking yourself’ was a woman or a men. Just ensuring not for any Interviewer bias. …

Anyway, I am recruiting some people for a unique experiment to test something out.

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