BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE YOURSELF?

The Setup:
Solomon Asch Experiment- Was a study to test the power of Conformity. Subjects were told that they would be participating in a vision test, along with a handful of people. Participants were shown pictures, and individually asked to answer simple and obvious questions. The catch was that everybody other than the subject was in on it, they were told to give answers that were obviously wrong answers!

So would the subject go against the crowd, even when the crowd was clearly incorrect?

The Result:
Questions the subjects were asked were like the puzzle shown here:

All they had to do was say which line on the right matched the one on the left. As you can see, its not rocket science Exhibit 1 very clearly matches A.

Despite the fact the answer is OBVIOUS, 32 percent of subjects would answer incorrectly if they saw that three others in the classroom gave the same wrong answer. Even when the line was plainly off by a few inches, it didn't matter.

OPINION: People should really learn to trust themselves a bit more, this is like saying two plus two equals five, when we all really know it equals four. I could understand if the subject matter was more difficult and the test subject really did not know the answer, but this is ridiculous.

WOULD YOU STILL ANSWER INCORRECTLY JUST BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE DID?