On rule-breaking in the Milgrom “obedience” experiments:
“On average, eventual quitters violated the experimental protocol in 30.6 percent of their active sequences. Unlike the fully compliant group, several of the disobedient individuals followed the procedure flawlessly right up until the point they refused to continue. The statistical difference highlights that the people who eventually quit were actually better at following the scientific protocol than those who went to the end.
“The most frequent violation in obedient sessions involved reading the memory test questions over the simulated screams of the learner. Doing this effectively guaranteed that the learner would fail the test and receive another shock. By talking over the protests, the obedient subjects abandoned the goal of testing memory and simply facilitated continuous shocks.”
Source: www.psypost.org/audio-tap…