How we created a tolerometer for Indians(medium.com) |
How we created a tolerometer for Indians(medium.com) |
Another aspect of this kind of social experiment or social science project is, how do you establish that you are non-partisan and non-biased? As well-intentioned as it is, there is a chance that this can be misconstrued as a propaganda that says "India is more tolerant than you think".
Talking about Milgram and similar experiments, though they are known to help achieve unbiased observations about human behavior, it actually doesn't rule out the validity of a well executed questionnaire experiment. Good questionnaires take care of authenticity using a lie score that tries to detect if the subject is trying to make himself / herself look good with the answers.