1/10
The dumbest thing on Netflix
25 March 2020
The premise of this show is interesting enough to suck you in, but none of the "experiments" are remotely legitimate. I watched 4 episodes and each one gets a little bit worse than the last. They take topics that *could* be legitimately interesting to do case studies on, then do very small sample sizes and intentionally set the parameters to ensure their desired outcome. In episode 4 the test subject has a gun with blanks, and is told to shoot anyone who points a gun at them. At the end, two guys jump out side by side with cell phones - and the show tells us that people are more likely to shoot the person of color. The problem is the data is completely insincere because the white guy pops up holding his phone like hes looking through his pictures, and the black guy swivels around a corner with his arm stretched out completely pointing at the person with the gun, and even his second hand supporting it - with legs spread out in a controlling stance like he's planting his feet to shoot. They never swapped the postures or anything to see if that changed anything. That is just one example of many, many, many (intentional) problems with their testing. It's not experiments it's just a soap box. Save your time.
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