Torture isn’t a science with measurements and scales.
More broadly, scientific attempts to quantify pain usually involve voluntary self-reporting. Doctors asking patients “on a scale of one to ten”, or (in the case of Justin Schmidt) inflicting pain upon themselves and writing down the results.
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Torture isn’t a science with measurements and scales.
More broadly, scientific attempts to quantify pain usually involve voluntary self-reporting. Doctors asking patients “on a scale of one to ten”, or (in the case of Justin Schmidt) inflicting pain upon themselves and writing down the results.
There’s a reason modern medicine has only managed “on a scale of one to ten, how does this rate?”
Pain experiences aren’t universal and there’s no way of knowing how a person is going to react to various types of stimuli.
They turn the amps up to 11 before singing “1-800-Kars-4-Kids…”