As a gag, you and your roommates decide to check yourselves into a mental hospital, just
to see if you can pull it off.
You tell the absolute truth in response to every question you
are asked, except that you insist that you hearvoices telling you that you are evil. If your
experience were the same as Rosenhan's in1973, about how long would you be
committed to the mental hospital with a diagnosis of schizophrenia?
a. 3 weeks
b. 3 months
c. 3 hours, just long enough to complete the interviews
d. 3 days, just long enough for me to admit it was all a joke!
e. 3 minutes, the clinician would see right through the joke!
a. 3 weeks
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