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The professor says Asch did an experiment which showed that the pressure to conform to a group greatly influences the decisions that people make.

For his experiment, he used cards with black lines drawn on them and asked students to answer questions about the lines out loud.

All the students but the last one was told to give the same wrong answer. Asch found that a third of the time, the last student gave the same answer as the rest of the group, even though it was different from what that student had observed.

Ashe’s experiment showed that people are often willing to sacrifice what they know to be true in order to conform to a group.