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She's lost control again

wellgreat - 14/04/2009 05:11 - United States

Today, I was in the Student Union when a man a came up to me and asked if I wanted to be in a study to see how men acted differently when working with attractive women. Flattered and taken aback, I agreed. He then told me I would be part of the control group to see how they act around plain looking women. FML

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Anonymous - 07/12/2009 21:05 - Canada

Today, I signed up for a psych experiment. I was a damsel in distress on the side of the highway, but no one stopped. Back at the lab, another participant said a half-dozen people helped her. The professor was testing how attractiveness affects altruism. I was the unattractive subject. FML

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Troy - - United States

Today, I filled out a political survey for a psychology experiment. A really cute girl was doing it, too. We hit it off and flirted through the surveys, and I asked her out when it was done. Then I found out it was really an attraction experiment and she was in on it. She was acting. FML

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SadisticSatire - 11/10/2009 01:04 - United States

Today, I went to work to find two new beautiful trainees. I thought maybe I might be able to hook up with one of them, so I walk up and flash my blue eyes and begin to act like a gentleman. Not five minutes into our conversation the girls ask me if there are any cute guys working here. FML

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Hello Nurse - 24/09/2012 04:32 - United States - El Macero

Today, a very attractive man asked me out. I'd have been flattered if I weren't the nurse assigned to his laboring wife. FML

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Gaslighting 101

Anon - 25/09/2023 20:00 - United States

Today, I volunteered to be a "mentally stable" person in a psychology experiment at my university. Little did I know, they'd paired me with a psychology grad student who asked me a series of increasingly bizarre and personal questions about my life. I ended up questioning my own sanity. FML

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sad45 - 15/03/2009 05:09 - Canada

Today, I was shopping with my friends and I got asked by a man if I could be in one of his commercials. I obviously said yes without thinking twice. I then found out that he wanted me to be the before picture for an acne control moisturizer. FML

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Anonymous - 27/11/2010 15:32 - Canada

Today, I went downtown with my friends. A group of guys came up to us and started hitting on everyone except me. Then one of them said, "Do you girls hang out with her to make yourselves look better?" FML

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Anonymous - 26/03/2011 06:24 - United States

Today, I was sitting in Walmart and I saw an attractive woman walking by. Being the single guy I am, I went up to her and asked if she needed help with carrying her groceries. She responded with "You know I'm a guy right?" FML

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Anonymous - 22/04/2014 15:26 - Canada - Sackville

Today, my biology professor was giving a lecture to everyone and used me as an example. For what? Traits men are repulsed by in potential mates. FML

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Anonymous - 07/06/2019 00:07

Today, I was sitting in Walmart when I saw an attractive woman walking by. Being the single guy I am, I went up to her and asked if she needed help with carrying her groceries. She responded with, "You know I'm a guy, right?" FML

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Silhouette_fml 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 12:09

That's just rude... they could have at least you keep your thoughts that you were the attractive woman.

Shavo_fml 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 12:11

Yeah I agree with number two. That's a bad experiment, you don't tell the control that they are the control. That's like telling a group that they are getting the placebo, it's kinda ruins the experiment.

knightfan 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 18:20

Just out of curiosity, UCF???

Calaura9 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 18:24

22 makes the most sense. You don't EVER tell people which group they are in, experimental or control. Unless that is the experiment.

regalarius 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 18:28

I remember reading about an experiment conducted once that involved making the 'normal' control group think that they were the 'exceptional' group, and vice-versa, and observing the effect. This could be something similar.

pwnrzero 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 18:42

THIS IS FAKE scientists do not tell the person that they are they control group, so that way they act normal around the control group source: 9th grade advanced biology class 10th grade advanced chem class 8th grade advanced earth science class my own knowledge

fuckthatnoise 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:21

How sexist.

fuckthatnoise 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:22

I think the men are not supposed to know about the experiment because they are the lab rats, not the ladies. The ladies are in on it.

deep_friar 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:47

On top of all the experiment criticisms so far: - if this were really about observing guys' reactions to more vs. less hot women, shouldn't the women be assessed for their looks more rigorously than just on the whim of the researcher? Wouldn't a panel of judges or something be appropriate? - if this were about observing the commenter's reaction, shouldn't she have been debriefed at the end of the experiment and, presumably, told it was a setup? Not asking the subject any questions at all is throwing away obvious data! Social science is the loser here

TheBlueLotus 0

Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:49

maybe they were doing another study and lied to you to see your reaction?

tash14 1

Tuesday 14 April 2009 20:36

49- The debriefing wouldn't happen until after the experiment is complete. It sounds like she hasn't actually participated in it yet, she was just asked to. But you are correct, you are supposed to hold a debriefing following a study. The assessment of who is "plain" versus "attractive" is also usually not decided by just one person. Which is another reason that the idea of 22 (and various others) makes the most sense. Otherwise, this person's study is full of confounds.