Topic > in the researcher's trust and one or two minorities remain in the dark. By using separate lengths of wood, most of the group is asked to agree that they are the same length, the individual will fight and start to get annoyed, but after a while he will conform to the group” (653). After reading articles similar to this one, the validity of this experiment is somewhat flawed. I agree with Lessing that this is a problem, but I feel like the evidence isn't enough to reject his claim. I prefer the experiment used in “Opinions and Social Pressure” by Solomon Asch, as the experiment is somewhat similar to Lessing's but provides much more detail to support his claim. They began to use more traces than Lessing, which increases the accuracy of performing the experiment. By achieving almost the same results, it also shows that nature adapts. Although the information in Lessing's article is a bit difficult to interpret due to the lack of sufficient evidence, however
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