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Invisible wrote:
> The more a read about psychology, the more I realise that PEOPLE ARE
> STUPID!
>
> The number of experiments I've read about where the test subjects do
> things which are obviously irrational is quite astonishing.
>
> (For example, you show people photos from a pair of digital cameras.
> Most people prefer camera X, and a few prefer camera Y. Now you tell
> them that camera X is 5 megapixels, but camera Y is 10 megapixels.
> Suddenly everybody prefers the photos from camera Y. WTF??)
>
> I worry about the human race... Seriously, how did a species so stupid
> survive for so long?
You think that's bad. I saw a documentary recently on cults. They
mentioned a psychological experiment where they had one real subject and
the rest planted. The task was simple, a sheet with a bar was shown next
to a sheet with 3 bars, The subject, and planted "subjects" were asked
to say out loud which of the three were the same. The plants would give
an obvious incorrect answer, while initially the subject would give the
correct answer, they eventually started to give the same answer as the
rest of the group. WTF?
GroupThink is scary.
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~Mike
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