The Baby Human - Scale Error

[xxMxOxMxMxYxx]

Aw how cute! You can totally see them thinking :-) I wonder if they think they're dreaming for a second! At what stage of a human's life do we understand/perceive our non-physical self?

[ShaKambondE]

I wonder if what we are seeing there is not so much as misunderstanding of scale as it is true signs of conformity. The Conditioning of the Human Condition that we are taught from birth and starts to take real grasp from that age on to adulthood. Its obvious those kids can see that the scale is beyond their body capacity, and most but the one REBEL i saw, tried to fit in... not for lack of scale sense... but to appease the adult/authority figure instructing them..?

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[Paralyzer1000]

we should wing coat hangars at them to test their reaction time

[Miikaika25]

is this new psychology?? or has it been around a while now?

[partymonster975]

What they are all really thinking...

"and not a single fuck was given that day"

[Leonhart7413]

I'm a speech therapist... we will never be able to understand how the human brain works... get over it ;) Those results mean nothing to me as well as concerning the kids in my country too of course

[UdderMarmalade]

Seeing as how the lady SAID "How about you just pretend it's like the BIG room.", I'm not that suprised.

[StarryEchoes]

This is not the actual study...just a demonstration of it made for tv.

[tojasonharris]

At 0:55, the researcher tells her to “pretend like it’s the big one and take it for a ride.” Sort of undermines the whole point of the study when you suggest the behaviour that you intend to “discover.”

[sKIPper76M]

@tojasonharris And at 2:00, the child asks "where is it?". The researcher replies, "it's right here." The child looks at the miniaturized version of the slide in disbelief and confusion. How was this not caught?

[kennyfriedman]

I agree with Machine Ambition, the "experiment" is BS. If you tell a kid to get in a car, even if it's small, they will try. And there are hard edits so you probably miss where the kid says something like "but that car is too small and you're a stupid adult thinking I can get in it." and then the adult probably said "just try so I can video tape it and use the imag out of context"

[eatcarpet]

@kennyfriedman The fact that they've even tried to get into it says something. An older kid would try to play with it knowing that it was a miniature car.

And do you really think that they would deliberately manipulate the data so they can obtain a certain outcome? Get real. Anyone can test it outside of this experiment.

[kennyfriedman]

@eatcarpet 2 quotes "why don't you pretend it's the big one & you can get in and take it for a ride" & "that's a good idea. push it in as far as it goes"

As an experiment I still feel it's BUNK. She goes way beyond being an impartial observer and instead tells the kid what to do.

Not saying kids don't do this...but I feel if they do they are probably playing, not misunderstanding scale.

And yes, people do manipulate data for results...it happens ALL the time.

[projectid]

@kennyfriedman This probably isn't video of the original experiment. The researchers most likely hired out a video crew to document their results, and they probably had a tighter schedule to keep than the original researchers. So, while the woman very well may have manipulated that one child to get in the car, that doesn't mean these results are invalid.

[Carmines757]

@kennyfriedman Are you kidding me? You know nothing about child psych. What do they have to gain from faking a video like this? It's basic stuff.

[kennyfriedman]

@Carmines757 what do they have to gain? Funding. And I have not studied child psych but I have studied science and know that most would look at this as a faulty experiment. The observer is not observing. She is telling the child to do something and then using that act to support data.

Read below I'm not saying kids don't do this. I'm saying the experiment is so flawed that it's laughable.

Please read my comment to @eatcarpet about manipulation of data?

[Carmines757]

@kennyfriedman An older child would respond to somebody telling them to get into the toy car by saying that they can't fit. The fact that she attempts to get into the car when prompted is evidence of scale error. As another poster said, this is not a video of an actual experiment, just a collection of clips representative of their findings

[MachineAmbition]

The researcher tells the girl to pretend it is the big one at 1 min. or so. This, to me, invalidates the experiment, unless that was the only case the researcher said that.