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marylandblue

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2. Actually, experiments show that saying something does make it so

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2018, 12:16 AM

Jul 2018

In the Asch conformity experiments, subjects had to determine the relative length of line when compared to three other lines. The subject was in a room full of actors who consistently gave the wrong answers. Most subjects also gave wrong answers when the others did, at least sometimes. Only 25% consistently went with their own eyes rather than majority opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

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It sounds so simple: "Saying something does not make it so". [View all] Atticus Jul 2018 OP

If I had to guess... alwaysinasnit Jul 2018 #1

Actually, experiments show that saying something does make it so marylandblue Jul 2018 #2

The title of your post is incorrect. Saying something does NOT make it Atticus Jul 2018 #3

The title was intended to be ironic marylandblue Jul 2018 #6

"There is none so blind as he who will not see." Nt raccoon Jul 2018 #4

It's like the people who claim to talk to your dead relatives... JHB Jul 2018 #5