Reads like hair-splitting over a rather unimportant detail.
The interesting thing about the outcome is that most people are rather easily talked into doing things they wouldn’t otherwise do. Not that specific sentences work on exactly 65% of participants—a rate that would undoubtedly depend to the appearances of the experimenter, depth of their voice, and so on.
edit: Somewhat amusingly, the “ai box experiment” seem to have had 60% victory rate, though the sample size is way too small.
Reads like hair-splitting over a rather unimportant detail.
The interesting thing about the outcome is that most people are rather easily talked into doing things they wouldn’t otherwise do. Not that specific sentences work on exactly 65% of participants—a rate that would undoubtedly depend to the appearances of the experimenter, depth of their voice, and so on.
edit: Somewhat amusingly, the “ai box experiment” seem to have had 60% victory rate, though the sample size is way too small.