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How The Rosenhan Experiment Worked

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Titticut Follies, Frederick Weisman, and Ken Keesley.

In psychology, they call false positives and false negatives type one and type two errors. And he was basically showing like psychiatry is full of judging type one andtype two errors. Geraldo Rivera exposed the Willabrick State School for the developmentally disabled on Staten Island in the early 70s. Titticut follies, Frederick Weisman did the same thing in the late 60s. Ken Keesley too.

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