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** [[Fridge Logic|What about the people who hate getting their blood pressure taken?]] Their breathing will speed up, screwing up the results.
* Averted hard in Experimental Economics; on the contrary to Experimental Psychology and for a number of reasons,<ref>Mainly because in such experiments what is being tested is how people play games and economists want to avoid the players second guessing the purpose of the experiment, which could lead them to believe that the game they are playing is purposeless and playing 'sub-optimally'</ref> the commonly agreed methodology in Experimental Economy forbids from any sort of deception towards those participating in the test and any economist doing so would pretty much have no chance of being able to publish their results... in an economics journal, at least.
* Two possibly-apocryphal examples from the USMC Basic Officers Course:
** After an extended series of field exercises and long marches, officer candidates are given an essay test with several tactical problems before they're allowed to sleep. Later on, they will be given the same test when they've had enough time to rest. The actual purpose is not to correctly solve the problems, but instead to get an education in just how badly your judgement can be affected while you're severely fatigued. (Most officer candidates reported that they were shocked to discover their first set of answers, the one done after a week of war games and vritually no sleep, were barely even coherent or relevant and that they hadn't even noticed at the time.)
** During a field exercise involving a live-fire drill while chemical protection gear and non-lethal gasses (IOW, tear gas or puke gas), one officer candidate was injured by an accidental discharge. It was impossible to do first aid without removing his suit, but it is very problematic to expose a man to CS gas when he has a sucking chest wound. The entire class fell apart in panic because there was no designated leader, a minimum of one idea on what to do from every officer candidate present, and absolutely no training on what to do in such an instance. When it was revealed 15 minutes later that the entire gunshot was a fake (blank round and special effects rigged up on the designated casualty, who'd been given a separate set of orders before the exercise), the instructors failed the class and then gave them a lecture on the importance of being able to take initiative and decide what to do in a situation not covered by orders... and the equal importance of maintaining, or designating, some kind of chain of command even in a situation where one was not provided beforehand.
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