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I must be falling to the dark side because I read this and thought "so this is how I can convince people of things: give them a dollar to say they agree with me."
This works quite a lot worse than arranging the situation so people say they agree with me without an explicit quid pro quo.
For example, if Sam really wants Pat's approval, I can give Pat a dollar to say, in Sam's hearing, that they agree with me; Sam is relatively likely to say they do too, but may not explicitly be aware that they are doing so to secure Pat's good opinion, in which case Sam is far more likely to be convinced than Pat is.
With the full force of hindsight bias at work, it feels incredibly obvious (snicker) that this is the primary tactic used for maneuvering in highschool girl-clique drama.