Tests have shown that although we believe that we are willing to stand out of the crowed, the fact

is that we tend to blend with the rest of our peers on a normal day to day basis. Solomon Asch conducted a social experiment involving a group of 7 paid actors, dubbed Confederates and one legitimate test subject. The group of 8 participants was asked to match lines and distinguish one from another, with the legitimate participant led to believe that the study was to understand perceptive qualities. The Confederate group, along with the legitimate participant answered the simple questions involving a card with three lines on it labeled A, B or C. The group was then shown a line that matched one of the answer lines, and asks which one was most similar. These questions would be answered with little difficulty by the group. As the study continued, unanimously the Confederate group would purposely answer the question wrong as a specific incorrect answer. According to 75% of the legitimate participants in the experiments went a long with the acting group at least once and combining all the experiments, the results showed that the legitimate participants conformed one third of the time. (Asch, S. E. 1951) After these experiments, the legitimate participant would be interviewed to understand why they answered the way that they did. Most of the people stated that even though they didnt believe that the wrong answers were right, instead they went along with the Confederates in fear of ridicule or being thought of as peculiar. Some of the real participants said that they really did believe that the confederates had answered correctly, switching their true perceptual belief from initial response. Others stated that they switched because the idea that everyone else was wrong and they were the only ones who were right, couldnt be possible, that they were much more informed somehow. Similar studies were then placed lowering the amount of participants to see if there was an effect, and there was. When dropped down to only one Confederate and one participant, the participant gave the incorrect answer only 3.6 percent of the time. When bumped up with two Confederates, it went up drastically to 13.6 and with three it jumped to 31.8. The more Confederates that were placed in the room with the participant, that increased the number slightly until it plateaued around the 35-37 percent range. This concept became known as Size of Majority (See Table 1). The Trend of Going slightly down with the increase of more people, assumes that somehow it is a fraction of a percent more comfortable to respond individually.