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.

-- 
~Mike

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