With reality television, we are drawn by the opportunity to see inside the secret lives of others. The promise to observe real life is alluring, but do contrived situations provide insight, or are they pseudoscience? Are social experiments on television simply entertainment? What happens if a four year old is used as a bait to observe behaviour in a kindergarten? What justifies the decision of programme makers to follow a woman for one month without her knowledge? When we revisit a classroom experiment on discrimination, are we inflating the value of our own work? Are these social experiments for subjects or the audience?
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