Social Experiments

Hey guys. I'll be honest with you, I really like performing experiments on people. That sounds terrible, but it's also one of the most entertaining things you can possibly do. If I could get a job in the future that just payed me to do random experiments on people, then I'd be perfectly happy with my life. Here's a few random things I want to do in the future.

This experiment revolves around a person seemingly lying unconscious on the street, and seeing if people walking by that person will check and see if the person is alright. The variables in this experiment would be the attire that the person lying unconscious would be wearing. The person would be dressed in ways such as business, casual, formal, homeless, and half-naked. Also, the person would probably lie down on the street in a way that implies that something is wrong with them, such as lying in the middle of the sidewalk in an awkward position. The purpose of this experiment is to see if people are more helpful towards people dressed in a socially acceptable manner, or if they are more likely to help those that are outcasts to society. Naturally most people would think that people would help the people dressed in a socially acceptable manner, but don't we help out the homeless all the time, in ways like homeless shelters and even just giving them some spare change? I just want to see if society contradicts itself in a more personal situation, because as a whole, we like to put on the front that we do everything we can to help those that are needy, but I wanna see what people do when they're given the problem face to face.

The main problem that I see with this experiment is that, rather than people focusing on the attire that the person is wearing, they'll just walk by the unconscious person thinking that somebody else has already gotten help for that person. Our society has a mental issue that prevents us for getting help for people if we think that somebody else will get help for them, or if we think that somebody has already gotten help. For example, there was a crime awhile back in which a woman was brutally stabbed and murdered outside of an apartment building. Now this is a stabbing, and this is no quiet process. The residents of the apartment building reported hearing the screams and cries of the woman, but the thing is, not one of them called for help. Each resident thought that another resident would call the police, but in the end nobody did until it was too late. People in our society don't want to take on extra responsibility if they feel it can be avoided, and this thought might hinder my findings a bit.

Another experiment that I want to do, once again has to do with people not accepted by society. This experiment has to do with street musicians. I want to go to a busy street corner were street musicians usually congregate, and have two people perform there at different times. One performer would be a child, well-dressed, but terrible at their instrument, whereas the other would be a grown adult, homeless in attire, but extremely brilliant at their musicianship. Who would get more money for their playing? I don't really have a hypothesis for this issue, but if I had a gun to my head and I was forced to pick, I'd say the child would get more money because, they're a child and people are more sympathetic to children than the homeless.

Ok thats it for now. Alot of really random writing on this post-midnight night :)