Subscribe RSS FeedHere’s how I heard it. This is an example of social/psychological experimentation and there is something we can learn from it.
Researchers in a lab were carrying out an experiment. There was a cage with monkeys, and there was bananas at the top of a ladder on a platform. Every time a monkey tried to climb up the ladder, every monkey in the cage would get shocked (how cruel). Eventually, if anyone tried to climb up the ladder, all the monkeys would get mad and tackle the monkey down to the floor and beat him up. Eventually, what they did is they removed 1 of the monkeys, and put a new monkey in the cage.
Obviously, he had no idea what was going on and when he tried to climb up the ladder, the monkeys got mad and beat him up. And then the researchers continued doing this until not a single monkey was there from the initial experiment (they were all green monkeys).
Now, if anyone tried to climb up the ladder, they would all beat him up, yet none of them had a clue why they were doing it……
Sometimes at my job I am reminded of this. We are doing things which make no sense, and if anyone asks why…. the answer is, well, "because that’s how we always did it."
Bananas anyone?
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