The psychological effects of inferiority
Jul. 5th, 2002 09:05 pmThe ways in which society affects peoples minds is of interest to me at the moment - I've been slowly but surely moving towards the view that movies, books, music, etc. all have a very maked effect on the people that watch them. I still believe in freedom of speech, etc., but that's because I believe that the alternative is far worse.
Anyway, I bumped into this today - which is like the Stanford Prison Experiment, only performed on kids. Here's a quote:
"I administered this exercise to a group of children with dyslexia. Brown-eyed children, who couldn't really read or spell anything without stammering, suddenly could spell words they couldn't before. On the other hand, I had a very smart girl who could multiply very well. The moment she, as a blue eyes, came in a inferior position, she started to stammer and making mistakes doing her sums. And we had been doing the exercise for less than two hours!"
Anyway, I bumped into this today - which is like the Stanford Prison Experiment, only performed on kids. Here's a quote:
"I administered this exercise to a group of children with dyslexia. Brown-eyed children, who couldn't really read or spell anything without stammering, suddenly could spell words they couldn't before. On the other hand, I had a very smart girl who could multiply very well. The moment she, as a blue eyes, came in a inferior position, she started to stammer and making mistakes doing her sums. And we had been doing the exercise for less than two hours!"