
The Rosenhan Experiment (Psychology, Psychiatry, Sanity, Insanity, Schizophrenia, Fraud)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Rosenheim's Decision to Drop Patient 9
Rosenheim wrote the first draft of the article with Patient 9 or Harry Landau in it. When he decided to cut Landau, he didn't go back and redo the calculations and charts. That's further evidence of Rosenheim's lack of concern for data integrity. We know it wasn't because Landau told them something different than the other pseudo patients. But really, Rosenheim did have Landau's data in there if the numbers are even real at all"
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The Rosenhan Experiment rocked the psychology profession 50 years ago. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the study's look into how mental health patients were treated, why the study was so important, and what it revealed about the human mind.
