CoCo:
Solomon Asch did a series of experiments in social psychology back in the 50s to show how peer pressure induces conformity. Here's how one of the experiments worked:
Subject is recruited to be part of a panel for testing perception. The subject believes all panel members are similar to him, that is, other recruits/subjects, however they are actually confederates of the experimenter.
The panel is shown a series of images (what we would recognize as optical illusions or comparisons of pictures to select one that is different, etc.) and then the experimenter asks each participant to orally respond with their choice. What the subject doesn't know is that the other panelists have been instructed to deliberately choose a wrong answer, and each panelist is instructed to agree with the panelist who answers first.
More often than not, even when it was OBVIOUS that the answer is dead wrong, the subject's answer conformed to the incorrect response of the other panelists.
What's more disturbing is that even when the subject gives the correct answer initially, in the face of the other panelists' giving incorrect answers, the subject usually changed his answer to conform.
Make no mistake, the WTS is aware of these tactics.
Why do you think all the answers they want you to parrot back to them are already printed in their publications? They know that your better judgement will be supplanted by your subconscious desire to be accepted by the "in-group". Especially when other members are giving the answer that the WTS wants to hear, the JW - wanting to save face and maintain their standing with the "in-group" - just goes along, pretending to understand or agree, even when they don't.
Scary, isn't it?
