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Asch confomrity experiments are fascinating. Almost 40% of the experimentees would go along with anything the group did even if it was clearly wrong. https://
by nickthemagicman 5y ago
Asch confomrity experiments are fascinating.
Almost 40% of the experimentees would go along with anything the group did even if it was clearly wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
- AstralStorm 5y agoAsch's numbers were off according to confirmations - it's different among age groups, gender and cultures - the effect is still significant and important, but can be escaped with enough work it seems. For example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22044061/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22044061/
- nickthemagicman 5y agoOh I'm sure there's a lot more fine grained data and that Asch's experiments were a rough prototype for future experiments. Asch was interesting to me because he showed that a significant proportion of the population would just go along with ANYTHING the group did. This has a lot of implications. A lot of advertisements use this technique to try to position their product in the ad as a 'mainstream' and 'normal' product that them majority loves even if it's a stick of cancer that will kill you. If propaganda can infect enough people, then many others will just cave and quit critically thinking and go along with the majority. It's just fascinating to me how many people will just cave to the majority to fit in.