My experiment is going to revolve around the idea of pain and how far people are wishing to push it. I'm going to get a micrometer and place it on the nerve between the thumb knuckle and the rest of the hand (adductor pollicis muscle to be exact) and have it slowly tightened until the person can no longer take the pain. The interesting part though is going to be how it is presented; i am going to make it very obvious how tight each person was able to take it. this will mean that when others see it they will want to do more, making the device tighter and putting themselves through more pain just so that they can 'win'. Even if they don't wind up being able to take more pain, they still would have tried.
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