Tim Harford 
The refreshing power of disagreement
One of the most famous experiments in social psychology took place in the early 1950s. Solomon Asch, a professor at Swarthmore College, gathered together groups of young men for what he told them was an experiment in “visual judgment”. It was no such thing.
What happened is often known as the “conformity experiment”, but that is a misleading label for
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