Social engineering is a strong part of many curriculums.
There are graded multiple choice bits that give better grades to those that have peer pressure as their decision driver.
Which does make me wonder where much of the internet went with widespread social media, how many were real people, how many were a few people that looked like many? How many are not people at all?
And all, pushing on a US society where those that got the grades and got the decision making jobs are extra suspectable. *
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Originally Posted by masraum
I think LOTS of folks don't think for themselves and just agree with someone else that's got a strong opinion, often, with the goal of being on the winning side. I think that's why peer pressure is often so effective at getting folks to do stuff that they otherwise wouldn't do. It may have intensified from the past to now where folks are trying to "fit in" more, but I don't think it's anything new. Maybe what's new is that more idiots have strong opinions and those idiots are able to win more, so the lemmings are following idiots more?
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