the majority effect
- Genre: Alternative
- Time: 03:57
- Released: 10/27/2005
- Label: rosco records
- Album: rarities
- Credits: neale scott/solomon asch, drums by tim rowan
- Artist: neale scott
- Location: canterbury england.
- Sounds Like: sonic youth, yo la tengo, calexico, four tet, tortoise, do make say think, mogwai, david pajo, m ward, explosions in the sky, labradford, black sabbath, radiohead,
Song Information:
noisy jam, mixed with reading of solomon asch's infamous conformity experiment description.
Song Lyrics:
A group of eight individuals (one subject and seven confederates) sat in a room and verbally stated which of three unequal lines matched a given line. The subject was seated so that he made his verbal judgement last. In most cases the confederates and subject agreed, but in certain cases the confederates all agreed on a wrong answer.
The "majority effect" was measured as the % of responses that erroneously conformed to the majority. They also tried to ascertain whether the subject was aware of the majority effect on him and why they acceded to group opinion. They also watched the reaction of the subject when the experiment was revealed. All subjects and confederates were male college students.
About one third of the responses conformed to the erroneous majority (compared to almost no errors in the control group). Some subjects always defied the group, some always went along with them. 25% were completely independent, 33% were more than half with the erroneous majority. Some were completely confident throughout, some were disoriented and confused.
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