I doubt whether it's good to do actual anti-conformity training because it might make you too non-conforming (i.e. sticking to wrong positions). Instead, maybe it'd be better to do training on how to use others' opinions as evidence, similar to calibration training. The approach of anti-conformity training sounds good, but I'd stray in some statements which are actually false, the goal here is to actually get to the right conclusions whether the rest of society is right or wrong.
It seems unlikely to be the sort of field where people will overcorrect - the causes of conformity(both psychologically and sociologically) are immense, and a bit of training will not overbalance the scales.
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