[pacaro]

In general I agree with you. It is important to separate experience from capability (there's probably a better word here).

Much of the social psychology may not fit easily into that division though. To pick on a common whipping boy in these arguments, Milgram's obedience study, what is the role of experience in any set of choices like those given to the participants. The asymmetric responsibilities when there is a power dynamic is something that some people learn somewhere along the line.

I'm rambling a little but I feel that some of the observed effects in these experiments may be things for which experience may provide a learned immunity

[tedks]

Milgram's obedience study was tested on adult men, between ages 30-40 IIRC. There were 19 later experiments, you wouldn't call them replications because they weren't exactly the same, but they were all consistent, and they sampled diverse (for the 50's) populations.

If you didn't know that, and were assuming it was tested on undergrads exclusively, you should recognize that your assumption was wrong, and propagate that through your belief graph.