Sample Milgram

• Milgram in Brief

   65 % of the participants were willing to administer the highest voltage of 450 V, with the mean estimate being 1.2 percent. 

  • The 450 V electric shock to another innocent person.
• participants

  40 males between the ages of 20 - 50 were drawn from the New Haven district of Connecticut, USA.
• Selection of participants

  The participants did not no special training, education , or experience is needed 

  (they wanted factory workers , businessmen , white-collar workers , they wanted whatever they could get.)
• Selection of participants

  • All the people must be between ages 20 - 50 
  • No high school or college students because they more likely to follow orders from superiors (headmasters and teachers)
• He invited males from the local area through a newspaper advertisement to take part in a learning and memory experiment. He told them about the study.

  • All respondents estimated that only a very small minority of participants would surprise everybody
• recruited participants using a newspaper advert.

  Volunteer Sampling
• • The participants were offered a $4.00 for a hour , they were told that they need people for a Memory Study and learning , the study was going to be done at Yale University
• • 37.5% were manual laborers, 40% were
  • white-collar workers and 22.5% were professionals.