This (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/saving-idea-university-dartmouth/679790/) article in The Atlantic cited an even more fascinating paper in which Solomon Asch describes an experiment in conformity and social pressure that produced the perhaps-not-astounding-but-indeed-fascinating result.
Here’s the paper: https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/teaching/courses/2009-08UVM-300/docs/others/everything/asch1955a.pdf
For those who don’t enjoy clicking or reading multipage articles, in other words tl;dr: (1/3)
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