why does sticking a fork in a power socket electrocute you?

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I swear this isn’t a troll question, it’s always been my understanding that electricity takes the path of least resistance, and silver is one of the best conducting metals, so if you did the sterotypical stick a fork in a power socket why does the power do anything to you when it can go through the much less resistive silver?

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It goes thru the fork into you and then into the ground. Ur completing the circuit between the outlet and the ground.

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