Thanks for mentioning Asch’s conformity experiment—it’s a great example of this sort of thing! I might come back and revise it a bit to mention the experiment.
(Though here, interestingly, a participant’s action isn’t exactly based on the percentage of people giving the wrong answer. It sounds like having one person give the right answer was enough to make people give the right answer, almost regardless of how many people gave the wrong answer. Nevertheless, it illustrates the point that other people’s behavior totally does influence most people’s behavior to quite a large degree, even in pretty unexpected settings.)
Enjoyable. I’m surprised Asch’s conformity experiments are not mentioned, e.g. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WHK94zXkQm7qm7wXk/asch-s-conformity-experiment.
Thanks for mentioning Asch’s conformity experiment—it’s a great example of this sort of thing! I might come back and revise it a bit to mention the experiment.
(Though here, interestingly, a participant’s action isn’t exactly based on the percentage of people giving the wrong answer. It sounds like having one person give the right answer was enough to make people give the right answer, almost regardless of how many people gave the wrong answer. Nevertheless, it illustrates the point that other people’s behavior totally does influence most people’s behavior to quite a large degree, even in pretty unexpected settings.)