The hopeful thing about Asch’s conformity experiments is that a single dissenter tremendously drove down the rate of conformity, even if the dissenter was only giving a different wrong answer. (...) Being a voice of dissent can bring real benefits to the group. But it also (famously) has a cost. And then you have to keep it up. Plus you could be wrong.
so a good thing to do can be to voice a disagreement with the group (even if you don’t know the answer), in order to give someone else the courage to speak the truth, and then support whatever it is he said (assuming for some reason you still can’t know the answer)?
that’s assuming that other people aren’t likely to speak up whatever just so someone else will speak the truth, so it’s probable that if someone defy the group he has a good reason to think he’s right.
so a good thing to do can be to voice a disagreement with the group (even if you don’t know the answer), in order to give someone else the courage to speak the truth, and then support whatever it is he said (assuming for some reason you still can’t know the answer)?
that’s assuming that other people aren’t likely to speak up whatever just so someone else will speak the truth, so it’s probable that if someone defy the group he has a good reason to think he’s right.