<p>I searched the Internet in an attempt to verify but all hits were secondary or lesser sources.  Could someone point me to an original source?</p>
<p>&quot;Psychologist Stanley Milgram found that 80% of people do not have the psychological and moral resources to defy an authority's order, no matter how legitimate the order is. Only 20% have critical capacity.&quot;</p>

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2023-11-22T20:53:35.613Z
Note that the Milgram Experiment has been [widely discredited](https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0098628316677644), so whatever finding he actually made is irrelevant anyway.
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"Note that the Milgram Experiment has been widely discredited"    

While that may well be(I'm no expert, hence the question) the experiment is still discussed and per Wikipedia: "He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of social psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Milgram as the 46th-most-cited psychologist of the 20th century."   

That being the case, is paraphrase I originally posted accurate to Milgram's writings and a bonus would be is there any extra-Milgram support for the statement?
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Trying to verify the accuracy of a Stanley Milgram paraphrase
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# Trying to verify the accuracy of a Stanley Milgram paraphrase

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-11-22)

I searched the Internet in an attempt to verify but all hits were secondary or lesser sources. Could someone point me to an original source?

"Psychologist Stanley Milgram found that 80% of people do not have the psychological and moral resources to defy an authority's order, no matter how legitimate the order is. Only 20% have critical capacity."

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Note that the Milgram Experiment has been [widely discredited](https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0098628316677644), so whatever finding he actually made is irrelevant anyway.  
> **username_0**: "Note that the Milgram Experiment has been widely discredited"      While that may well be(I'm no expert, hence the question) the experiment is still discussed and per Wikipedia: "He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of social psychology. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Milgram as the 46th-most-cited psychologist of the 20th century."     That being the case, is paraphrase I originally posted accurate to Milgram's writings and a bonus would be is there any extra-Milgram support for the statement?  

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