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6. Why were there pilot studies conducted?

  • To investigate how much time and resources would be necessary
  • To ensure the procedure was both credible and ethically acceptable.
  • To determine the right research method to use
  • To reduce costs

7. What was the main aim of the study

  • To investigate the role of disppostional factors in obediance, diobediance and whistleblowing
  • To investigate rates of obediance,disobedience and whistleblowing where no physical violence is involved.
  • To investigate the accuracy of people's estimates of obediance,disobediance and whistleblowing
  • To investigate how the role of situational factors in obediance, disobediance and whistleblowing

8. Dispositional factors played a part in the results

  • True
  • Some what true
  • False
  • They were not tested

9. What % of participants believed that they would obey?

  • 3.6%
  • 37.3%
  • 54.6%
  • 18.8%

10. What was the main conclusion of the study

  • People overestimate the tendency of disobeying
  • People overestimate the tendency to blow the whistle
  • People underestimate the tendency to blow the whistle
  • People overestimate the tendency to obey

11. The data collected was.....

  • Quantitative
  • Quantitative AND qualitative
  • Qualitative

12. What % of participants actually blew the whistle

  • 9.4%
  • 43.9%
  • 3.6%
  • 64.5%

13. The sampling bias was representative

  • True
  • False
  • Some what true

14. How many people were used in the main experiment and what type of person where they?

  • 92 and phD students
  • 149 and undergraduate students
  • 119 and professionals
  • 139 and manual workers

15. The main flaw of the experiment was the lack of realism

  • False
  • True

16. The experiment raised as many ethical issues as the Milgram study

  • False
  • True