ABC's Social Experiment Series: What Would You Do

There is a kind of shallowness in this reality show by John Quiñones the host.

The social experiments take heated controversies (interracial relationships, gay marriage, prayer in public, immigration, etc.) of the day and play them out before the public via actors, just to see how the public would react. One can find these videos easily on YouTube.

Interesting experiment, but when analyzed deeper, it's not really about these controversies that were being experimented on, they were always merely about "tolerance of rudeness" in disguise. In other words, whoever in the rude chair will lose. The logical fallacy is an Appeal to Pity instead of really dealing with the controversial topics at heart. Hence, this is not a fair experiment, the host could easily choose either side to stand out looking triumph by making it the victim of rudeness.

For such an interesting experiment, Quiñones could have done a better job at it.

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