Nominull2 comments on Asch's Conformity Experiment - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 December 2007 07:03AM

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Comment author: Nominull2 26 December 2007 05:10:46PM 1 point [-]

Isn't it reasonable to find it more likely that people are lying than that something has gone that flagrantly wrong with my ability to judge sizes of lines?

Comment author: pnrjulius 09 April 2012 05:34:43AM 0 points [-]

Not necessarily. Maybe your eyes are very bad, or you've suffered a stroke. (Though maybe you should be concerned about that and halt the experiment, rather than just agreeing.)