Standford Prison Experiment

Standford Prison Experiment
The Standford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner and a prison guard.The experiment was held at Standford university. Twenty-four male students out of 75 were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. The participants adapted to their roles well beyond Zimbardo's expectations, as the guards enforced  measures and subjected some of the prisoners to psychological torture. Many of the prisoners  accepted psychological abuse and, at the request of the guards.The experiment even affected Zimbardo himself, who, in his role as the superintendent, permitted the abuse to continue.

Sense and Nonsense About Surveys
In the article the,"Sense and Nonsense About Surveys",It stated that surveys remain our best tool for learning about large populations. One remarkable advantage surveys
have over some other methods is the ability to
identify their own limitations, as illustrated by the
development of both probability theory in sampling
and experiments in questioning. In the end, however,
with surveys as with all research methods, there
is no substitute for both care and intelligence in the
way evidence is gathered and interpreted. What we
learn about society is always mediated by the instruments
we use, including our own eyes and ears. As
Isaac Newton wrote long ago, error is not in the art
but in the artificers.

The article "sense and Nonsense about surveys" and the "Standford Prison Experiment", i thought to me interesting.As though one is about experiments the other is about surveys.The difference between surveys and experiments is that:Experimentation produces either one or no outcome.Surveying gathers many opinions which can subsequently be analyzed and a general concensus determined.But I felt like both topics were similar being that surveys and experiments are both set out to find some type of information to the unknown.And is data that is always updated because its due to either change or stay the same.