On one of the ARG spreadsheets is a list of children and their test results from the Magnus Institute. Sam appears on this list, as does someone by the name of Dyer. Since Alice is trans, and this person is the same age/a tiny bit older than Sam, I'm going to assume it is her rather than her younger brother. I shall refer to this participant as Alice for the remainder of the post.
It seems that the Institute was testing these children for specific psychological traits. It starts with their Piaget developmental stage, which is age 7-11 or stage 3 for both Alice and Sam.
Then it lists their Kohlberg level. From what I found this is morality level, what drives your decisions and behavior. Alice is a level 2, which means social approval and order. This is conventional morality. Sam however is a level 3, which is post-conventional and means the social contract and internal moral principles. This actually follows very well with a later test.
Both have prosocial behavior, try to make the best decisions for society, a pass the Sally-Anne test, understand that other people can have different beliefs from you that can be incorrect. They also both get Fair on the Ultimatum test, meaning when told to make a trade they both made a fair one.
Then they branch off again. Alice tested at 85% empathy where Sam tested at a whopping 98%.
The last two tests are the Milgram experiment and the Asch conformity test. Alice got low for both, where Sam got high for both.
The Milgram experiment was originally done after WWII to see if people really would "just follow orders" to the degree the nazis did. They told you you needed to shock another person, upping the voltage each time. (All pretend, no one was actually hurt). Finally the voltage reaches lethal ranges and they ask you to do it again.
The Asch test measures whether you will changed your answers based on the people around you.
Alice scored low for both, which I may be mistaken, but I think means low conformity/did not comply. If I'm wrong, oops, scratch that, reverse it. She scored pretty normal for the people around her, maybe a little bit lower, but to be expected from someone like her.
Sam however scored high for both. Which, in combination with his strong desire to please parents, means he was always going with what he was told.
The thing that stands out to me, though, is that as empathy rose, the last two tests got lower. Everyone else even close to him had low or moderate. Yet Sam, with the highest empathy, scored high for both. He could feel the pain he was inflicting, knew how the other person must feel, yet did it anyway.
I can only think that the Institute was not testing kids to see who would be a good avatar/external, because with scores like that I could only ever see Sam being a perfect match. Someone who knows exactly what is wrong or right, upholds the social contract, and feels very much for the people around him, yet will do whatever is asked of him anyway. Even if it pains him to do it.
(If I'm wrong on the low/high thing let me know and I will adjust my theorizing.)
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