TIL of the Rosenhan experiment: Sane people faked hearing voices to see if they would be accurately diagnosed. They weren't. None of the subjects were identified as impostors by the hospital staff, though psychiatric patients seemed to be able to correctly identify them as impostors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment#Impact_and_controversy



Submitted March 25, 2015 at 11:46PM by KlvrDissident http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/30a1kx/til_of_the_rosenhan_experiment_sane_people_faked/