One passage, labeled with a white card, contained a reward while the other one, labeled with a black card, led to an electrical shock.

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James White, the Harris County, Texas, emergency management coordinator, said that most of the dead had drowned, but that two had died of electrical shock.

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Every time you buy one, you are administering the equivalent of an electrical shock to a worker at FoxConn who is suffering due to the working conditions at that factory.

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It tested what would happen if a person in a position of authority ordered a subject to deliver a 400-volt electrical shock to another person, would the subject follow orders?

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"Most child victims of torture described being beaten, blindfolded, subjected to stress positions, whipped with heavy electrical cables, scarred by cigarette burns and, in one recorded case, subjected to electrical shock to the genitals, " the report states, citing dozens of witness accounts.

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Milgram expected 30% of those subjects to deliver what they thought was a fatal electrical charge to an unseen but loudly screaming subject in response to orders from the authority overseeing the experiment. 65% of those subjects actually delivered the fatal electrical shock.

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The cause in about half the cases is ventricular fibrillation, an electrical disturbance in the heart that is most responsive to a shock from an AED.

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