Hacker Cinema
What Would You Do?
2008 · TV series · 60 min episodes · 17 seasons
An American television news magazine and hidden camera show. Actors act out scenes of conflict or illegal activity in public settings while hidden cameras videotape the scene, and the focus is on whether or not bystanders intervene, and how. Variations are also usually included, such as changing the genders, the races or the clothing of the actors performing the scene, to see if bystanders react differently. Quiñones appears at the end to interview the bystanders about their reactions. As the experiment goes on, psychology professors, teachers, or club members watch and discuss the video with Quiñones, explaining and making inferences on the bystanders' reactions.
1 positive1 negative1 neutralfrom 3 commenters
Where to watch
No streaming data for this title.
3 comments on Hacker News
Reminds me of the American TV show "What Would You Do?", of which there are many videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatWouldYouDo
It tends heavily to revisit certain themes, but overall it drives home the point that regardless of the social acrimony and political polarization that dominate social media and seem to divide Americans into inexorably inimical tribes, when it comes to everyday interactions, most Americans seem to be pretty decent and kind people.
Watch nearly any episode of the TV show, "What would you do". There are often examples of people giving some* the benefit of the doubt when they are in fact stealing, etc, while others are reported immediately to the police.
In the context of this show: * "some" are always white and/or female "others" are some white males, and all non-white males.
This "benefit of the doubt" is a privilege.
It sounds like a scene from that terrible TV show "What Would You Do?" I'd ignore it that's what I would do.