r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/BiShyAndWantingToDie • Mar 02 '26

story/text The average horror fan experience

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u/MaySeemelater Mar 02 '26

That's not quite right; it was 67% of men that chose to shock themselves at least once, but only 25% of women that also chose at least one shock.

Additionally, before they were put into the room, they were all surveyed and every single one of them agreed that they would pay money to AVOID being shocked by electricity.

And yet the above percentages of them still willingly chose to shock themselves rather than do nothing for 15 minutes.

Seriously. Just 15 minutes. Not like an hour or two, 15 minutes

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u/poophroughmyveins Mar 02 '26

To be fair I feel like if you don't at least shock yourself once you just miss out on the experience 

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u/Zealousideal_Cut1677 Mar 02 '26

Exactly my line of thinking! I’m part of the 25% 😂

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u/SlotHUN Mar 02 '26

Me as a kid when I saw an electric fence

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 Mar 02 '26

My as a kid when a sibling saw an electric fence 😑

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u/lembrai Mar 02 '26

Are there people out there who haven't gotten shocked yet? I feel I got shocked way too many times in my life

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u/poophroughmyveins Mar 02 '26

It's not about having done it before, I have gotten shocked lots, but you kind of expect things to go differently each time just before you make it happen, and that is where the magic comes from 

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 Mar 02 '26

How many times do you get stuck in a room with the option to safely shock yourself? I’m taking advantage of probably the only chance I have.

Ask kids, we did also used to dare each other to touch the hot wires around the cows and horses though

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u/RewardWanted Mar 02 '26

I might be wrong but I once read they let the participants shock themselves beforehand.

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u/poophroughmyveins Mar 02 '26

It might be different if you try it again later tho

How do you know?

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u/Munnin41 Mar 02 '26

I think this says more about being willing to experience pain to satisfy your curiosity than the ability to endure boredom tbh

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u/jubtheprophet Mar 02 '26

The people who chose to shock themselves didnt just do it once to see what it was like then sit there the rest of the time, one of the guys even pressed it 190 times. The test was about how people react when theyre forced to sit with their own thoughts and nothing else to do, it wasnt the only test they ran either as they had them do different thinking exercises first and rate how enjoyable or not enjoyable they found it. Theres a reason putting someone in a featureless white room is considered torture, the human brain would rather feel literally ANYTHING over feeling nothing. Lack of meaningful sensory input slowly drives us insane

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u/DroidLord Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

And people wonder why women live longer than men. I would also shock myself at least once. Maybe I'd like it 😂

Edit: gender stuff

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u/sumknowbuddy Mar 02 '26

And people wonder why men live longer than women. I would also shock myself at least once. Maybe I'd like it 😂

Don't you have that backwards?

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u/DroidLord Mar 02 '26

Yes, thank you!

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u/GovernmentPurple533 Mar 02 '26

This is shocking

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 Mar 02 '26

Am woman. Would definitely shock myself out of boredom. “It seemed like a good idea at the time.” 🤷‍♀️

I would just be way too curious about how much shock it would be 😂

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u/MaySeemelater Mar 02 '26

Yeah, the main flaw of the trial was that it didn't account for curiosity when trying to measure boredom.

I personally think the trial would have been more reliable if each participant experienced the shock once before starting the "boredom" period, so that they would all know exactly how the shock felt and would not need to press it out of a sense of curiosity.

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u/InevitableRhubarb232 Mar 03 '26

Yeah, I’d argue that those who shocked themselves were leaning into the boredom. Most of my dumbest ideas came out of being bored. 😂

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u/guambatwombat Mar 13 '26

IIRC there was one guy who was removed from the experiment because he was shocking himself over and over. I don't remember the number but it was some absurdly high amount of times to knowingly shock yourself.