What it takes to stand up to authority

#1

Post by robinoh » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 6:34 PM UTC

What it takes to stand up to authority
bbc.com

Re: What it takes to stand up to authority

#2

Post by lucideer » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 6:43 PM UTC

I'm not sure I understand the grammar of the HN title. What does "goes in length" mean?

Re: What it takes to stand up to authority

#3

Post by grzm » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

Actual article title: "What it takes to stand up to authority"

Re: What it takes to stand up to authority

#4

Post by osrec » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

lucideer wrote: post #2

I'm not sure I understand the grammar of the HN title. What does "goes in length" mean?

I think they mean 'in detail'

Re: What it takes to stand up to authority

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Post by rubbingalcohol » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 6:49 PM UTC

lucideer wrote: post #2

I'm not sure I understand the grammar of the HN title. What does "goes in length" mean?

"The BBC goes in length" made me do a smirking double-take, but I have a sophomoric sense of humor.

Re: What it takes to stand up to authority

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Post by kstenerud » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 6:50 PM UTC

> Assigning negative term after term to harmless groups of people was intended to be emotionally wearing and to make most participants feel uncomfortable. Plenty dropped out as it got more intense. For those who carried on, it was a belief that they were contributing to something important – a rigorous scientific study – that drove them to push through.

It's a pretty sloppy to assume that they believed this because of an authority figure.

Re: What it takes to stand up to authority

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Post by tajen » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 6:59 PM UTC

Isn’t that a reproduction of the (well-criticized) Stanford experiment, which already didn’t need to be demonstrated because we already demonstrated it with the Nazi horror?

Re: What it takes to stand up to authority

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Post by jackstraw14 » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 7:03 PM UTC

osrec wrote: post #4

lucideer wrote: post #2

I'm not sure I understand the grammar of the HN title. What does "goes in length" mean?

I think they mean 'in detail'

Could also be 'at length'

Re: What it takes to stand up to authority

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Post by cellularmitosis » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

tajen wrote: post #7

Isn’t that a reproduction of the (well-criticized) Stanford experiment, which already didn’t need to be demonstrated because we already demonstrated it with the Nazi horror?

But it did need to be demonstrated. "That could never happen here, not in our country" needed to be refuted.

Re: What it takes to stand up to authority

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Post by sctb » Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 7:14 PM UTC

lucideer wrote: post #2

I'm not sure I understand the grammar of the HN title. What does "goes in length" mean?

We've reverted the submitted title of “The BBC goes in length about research showing how our brain responds to coercion” to that of the article.