{"id":9313,"date":"2011-05-13T12:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9313"},"modified":"2011-05-13T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:25:02","slug":"iatrogenic-gullibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/iatrogenic-gullibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Iatrogenic gullibility?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/05\/drugging_people.html?utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> summarizes a report that is either a very late April Fool story or proof that the sight of a white coat and stethescope induces compliant behaviour:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a pretty scary criminal tactic from Turkey. Burglars dress up as doctors, and ring doorbells handing out pills under some pretense or another. They&#8217;re actually powerful sedatives, and when people take them they pass out, and the burglars can ransack the house.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, when the police tried the same trick with placebos, they got an 86% compliance rate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The linked report shows that people are nearly as likely to open the door when the caller claims to be a robber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier summarizes a report that is either a very late April Fool story or proof that the sight of a white coat and stethescope induces compliant behaviour: This is a pretty scary criminal tactic from Turkey. Burglars dress up as doctors, and ring doorbells handing out pills under some pretense or another. They&#8217;re actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[343,156,194,139,249],"class_list":["post-9313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-fail","tag-fraud","tag-psychology","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2qd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9314,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313\/revisions\/9314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}