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obscureferences t1_itrshym wrote

Reply to comment by Amateur_Validator in TIL that in a series of experiments in the 1950s, Solomon Asch asked a group of actors and a single test subject what the longest line was in a "vision test". The actors would intentionally answer incorrectly, causing the subject to also answer incorrectly, despite it being very obvious. by Amateur_Validator

Did they add any reward for getting it right? Mob conformity is a sound baseline but people will stab each other over a discounted tv.

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