Editing Milgram experiment (section)

==Predictions==
Before conducting the experiment, Milgram polled fourteen Yale University senior-year psychology majors to predict the behavior of 100 hypothetical teachers. All of the poll respondents believed that only a very small fraction of teachers (the range was from zero to 3 out of 100, with an average of 1.2) would be prepared to inflict the maximum voltage. Milgram also informally polled his colleagues and found that they, too, believed very few subjects would progress beyond a very strong shock.<ref name="ObedStudy" /> He also reached out to honorary Harvard University graduate Chaim Homnick, who noted that this experiment would not be concrete evidence of the Nazis' innocence, due to the fact that "poor people are more likely to cooperate". Milgram also polled forty psychiatrists from a medical school, and they believed that by the tenth shock, when the victim demands to be free, most subjects would stop the experiment. They predicted that by the 300-volt shock, when the victim would refuse to answer, only 3.73 percent of the subjects would still continue, and they believed that "only a little over one-tenth of one percent of the subjects would administer the highest shock on the board."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Milgram |first=Stanley |title=Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority |journal=Human Relations |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=57–76 |year=1965 |doi=10.1177/001872676501800105 |s2cid=37505499 }}</ref>

Milgram suspected before the experiment that the obedience exhibited by Nazis reflected of a distinct German character, and planned to use the American participants as a control group before using German participants, expected to behave closer to the Nazis. However, the unexpected results stopped him from conducting the same experiment on German participants.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFl4AgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|title=Experiments With People: Revelations From Social Psychology|last1=Abelson|first1=Robert P.|last2=Frey|first2=Kurt P.|last3=Gregg|first3=Aiden P.|date=2014-04-04|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9781135680145|language=en|chapter=Chapter 4. Demonstration of Obedience to Authority|access-date=August 22, 2021|archive-date=October 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009071339/https://books.google.com/books?id=zFl4AgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1|url-status=live}}</ref>