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Netflix’s "100 Humans" Only Succeeds At Showing Its Own Bias, Not Proving Ours

Netflix’s new reality docu-series, “100 Humans,” aims to examine what it means to be human, touching on subjects that range from torture and happiness to racism and sexism.

By Mia C. Gonzalez3 min read
100 Humans isn't real science
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The concept of 100 Humans, though relatively simple, immediately caught my attention when I recently opened up a Netflix tab one night: viewers could watch a group of 100 human beings, diverse in every way imaginable, participate in a series of (vaguely) scientific and social experiments — experiments that explore just what it means to be human.