Scientific literature refutes the idea that an average person can be involuntarily hypnotized, as susceptibility varies widely and successful hypnosis requires cooperation and baseline trait hypnotizability rather than coercion.
The claim implies that hypnosis can be forced upon an average person against their will. Psychological research on hypnosis consistently demonstrates that hypnotizability is a stable trait and that deep hypnotic phenomena require cooperation, expectation, and a baseline level of individual suggestibility (high hypnotizability), rather than being something that can be involuntarily inflicted on anyone.