The Psychology Experiment That Fooled Doctors 👨🏻‍⚕️

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00:00Back in the 1970s, a group of totally sane people checked themselves into insane asylums

00:04just to see if doctors could spot they were faking, but the result exposed something shocking

00:08about psychiatry. You see, eight volunteers claimed they heard a voice saying, thud, empty,

00:13or hollow. This was enough to get them admitted into the asylum. There, the real test began.

00:18Once inside, they acted completely normal. No voices, no symptoms, nothing. But doctors still

00:23labeled each fake patient with severe mental illnesses. Some were even stuck inside for over

00:2850 days. The wildest part is that across 12 hospitals, not one staff member realized they

00:33were imposters. Stanford published this study and it rocked the entire psychiatric field. One hospital

00:37fought back saying, send us all your fakes. We'll catch them. Over the next three months,

00:41they flagged 41 patients as frauds and suspected 42 more. But in the end,

00:46Stanford revealed the twist. They hadn't sent a single fake patient at all.