Talk:Asch conformity experiments

message: The unanimity of the confederates has also been varied. When the confederates are not unanimous in their judgment, even if only one confederate voices a different opinion, participants are much more likely to resist the urge to conform (only 5-10% conform) than when the confederates all agree. This finding illuminates the power that even a small dissenting minority can have. Interestingly, this finding holds whether or not the dissenting confederate gives the correct answer. As long as the dissenting confederate gives an answer that is different from the majority, participants are more likely to give the correct answer. Males show around half the effect of females (tested in same-sex groups); and conformity is higher among members of an ingroup.[2]
: Are we here talking about conformity effect, or the dissention effect? Vital clarification is needed here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.202.29.184 (talk) 14:43, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Unclear context

message: Is the "Did you miss me?" message on this page some sort of psychological test?
Zuriel147 (talk) 20:55, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Test

message: Hey dudes you should put more on this internet site about Asch himself so that people know his background. Please. Thank you.
:Hi there. If people want background on Solomon Asch then they are likely to head to the Solomon Asch page. My feeling is that, in the interests of brevity and minimizing redundancy, any content on this article should relate directly to the experiments themselves. I moved some content in accordance with this perspective. Do others disagree? Cheers Andrew (talk) 00:50, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Background on Solomon Asch

message: Only one subject out of hundreds of trials actually sided with the erroneous majority.
See Perrin and Spencer 1980.
209.20.216.226 09:53, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does Perrin and Spencer explain the calculation that derived 33% out of "one out of hundreds?" 68.105.109.51 00:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Asch's conformity experiments are unreplicable

message: If those lines became an actual person, and if I am 1.6m tall, and A & C are distorted picture of me at 1.4m tall and 1.8m tall, and B is the real me at 1.6m tall, then while it is factually correct to say B as the right answer, but it supposed hurts 'my' feeling, so C is the socially accepted answer.  Now, an experimenter uses that rationale to the confederates, what results can we expect then if the confederates outnumber the real subjects?
:What?  I don't understand your point.  The confederates aren't being tested.  The experiment is to see whether the subjects would concur with the confederates, and it found they did. Nik42 02:57, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They should have given an incentive to get the correct answer. That's just my opinion. I haven't really thought about it too much. 67.162.10.70 (talk) 20:32, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Factual Correctness vs. Social Norms

message: It says it was published in 1953, yet there's no references from 1953. Where's the original published document at? OptimistBen | talk - contribs 16:19, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: First published in 1951; however most famous/common ref is the version from Scientific American in 1955.Lord Spring Onion (talk) 12:02, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Published in 1953? 

message: hey, this is for anyone in the uk, just thought id mention about who ever wrote this article; the british psychological society (think thats right) discorage the word 'subject' and prefere the term 'participant'. thought id mention that incase there are any students out there because i think exam boards penalise you if you uses the term subject in regards to a person taking part in an experiment. that goes for any psychological experiments noted on this website.
wikipedia rules!!!xxx  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Na108 (talk • contribs) 15:30, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  BPS 

message: This sentences evidently belongs to the results section, not to the methods section. 
Quote: 
however, when surrounded by individuals all voicing an incorrect answer, participants provided incorrect responses on a high proportion of the questions (32%). Seventy-five percent of the participants gave an incorrect answer to at least one question.
--Ihaveabutt (talk) 23:58, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: True; also I note that many sources state 37% (or 36.8%) and others say 32%, I wonder why...? Lord Spring Onion (talk) 12:02, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sources including the wiki on Solomon Asch say 37% :)  Lord Spring Onion (talk) 12:08, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ok so it appears that it was 32% when published in 1951, but his 1955 article included further testing and stated "...under group pressure the minority subjects swung to acceptance of the misleading majority's wrong judgments in 36.8 per cent of the selections".  Lord Spring Onion (talk) 12:12, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Method or Results  

message: I just wanted to let the previous writers of this page know that within the next few days, I will be posting an updated page. I am part of the APS Wiki initiative. Please let me know if you have any further suggestions.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yvasquez (talk • contribs) 18:38, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing the page 

message: The first two sentences of this section ("A plethora of studies have documented cultural differences in conformity. Stanley Milgram's study was among the first to exhibit these differences") doesn't appear to correspond to what the article says, and is confusing. 
Could anyone with greater expertise in the topic tell me if this would be a more accurate statement? "Cultural differences in conformity have been referenced in common stereotypes throughout history, but Stanley Milgram's study was among the first to demonstrate them objectively."
Awien (talk) 18:20, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Culture section 

message: This section needs to be rewritten to remove repetition, and to avoid jumping back and forth between the topics. I might volunteer, but don't really have time, and am certainly no expert in the field. Awien (talk) 18:29, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender and age 

message: Of the 37 participants in the control group, less than 1% gave incorrect answers? Perhaps the number of incorrect answers was less than 1% of the total, instead? (Since I have no way to verify which part of the data is wrong, not editing the main article)
MtI (talk) 19:32, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi MtI and welcome to Wikipedia. Good point! Of course, it was error rate. I corrected this. By the way, are you aware that you have not registered an account in the name of MtI? On this page: Wikipedia:Register you can read how to do this. With friendly regards, Lova Falk talk 21:42, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Mathematical incorrectness

message: Aren't the two statements in the following sentence redundant?
"Overall, in the experimental group, 75% of the participants gave an incorrect answer to at least one question while only 25% never gave an incorrect response."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Razdaz88 (talk • contribs) 12:17, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe so. I have gone ahead and trimmed the sentence. Cheers Andrew (talk) 13:58, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  redundant statistics 

message: Three simple lines may be easy to distinguish, but you can never be fully sure if you took everything in consideration.
Optical illusions are typical for television; television is an entire illusion.
It may disturb your perception.
It also has an influence of how you perceive real people in daily life.
So Asch perhaps mostly observed a media-influence phenomenon.
On the other hand, a computer with a compiler installed is great to figure out truths about the world.
Being given that heat is vibration of atoms, it lately told me that this also would cause a quick alternating
current surrounding the heated object which is too quick to be measured. And this electrical induction could
look like light. Me against Einstein.
And now we're exactly at the deciding point. Would you rather be called narcissistic or be cheated?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.201.15.8 (talk) 23:53, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  It could be an optical illusion 

message: I have read a reprint of the original publication and haven't spotted any corroboration of this statement.
"Overall, 75% of participants gave at least one incorrect answer out of the 12 critical trials."
Where did it come from? Perhaps the reference should be replaced if the statement originates from another publication. Nad.Chel (talk) 22:26, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "75% of the participants"