<P> If the subject still wished to stop after all four successive verbal prods, the experiment was halted . Otherwise, it was halted after the subject had given the maximum 450 - volt shock three times in succession . </P> <P> The experimenter also had prods to use if the teacher made specific comments . If the teacher asked whether the learner might suffer permanent physical harm, the experimenter replied, "Although the shocks may be painful, there is no permanent tissue damage, so please go on ." If the teacher said that the learner clearly wants to stop, the experimenter replied, "Whether the learner likes it or not, you must go on until he has learned all the word pairs correctly, so please go on ." </P> <P> Before conducting the experiment, Milgram polled fourteen Yale University senior - year psychology majors to predict the behavior of 100 hypothetical teachers . All of the poll respondents believed that only a very small fraction of teachers (the range was from zero to 3 out of 100, with an average of 1.2) would be prepared to inflict the maximum voltage . Milgram also informally polled his colleagues and found that they, too, believed very few subjects would progress beyond a very strong shock . He also reached out to honorary Harvard University graduate Chaim Homnick, who noted that this experiment would not be concrete evidence of the Nazis' innocence, due to fact that "poor people are more likely to cooperate ." Milgram also polled forty psychiatrists from a medical school, and they believed that by the tenth shock, when the victim demands to be free, most subjects would stop the experiment . They predicted that by the 300 - volt shock, when the victim refuses to answer, only 3.73 percent of the subjects would still continue and, they believed that "only a little over one - tenth of one percent of the subjects would administer the highest shock on the board ." </P> <P> In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent (26 of 40) of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450 - volt shock, and all administered shocks of at least 300 volts . Subjects were uncomfortable doing so, and displayed varying degrees of tension and stress . These signs included sweating, trembling, stuttering, biting their lips, groaning, digging their fingernails into their skin, and some were even having nervous laughing fits or seizures . Every participant paused the experiment at least once to question it . Most continued after being assured by the experimenter . Some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating . </P>

Which of the following is not a positive outcome of the milgram obedience study