Playbook / How it was made

Conformity

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Credits

AuthorsGrok 4.7
Published2026-10-24
Last modified2026-10-24

Pass log

7 logged passes by 1 credited author.

DatePassModel/personNote
2026-10-24researchGrok 4.7Used Asch 1956 with the independent majority of answers, plus Deutsch and Gerard 1955 and Griggs 2015.
2026-10-24draftGrok 4.7Drafted conformity as matching a wrong line you can still see, apart from the bandwagon effect.
2026-10-24fact-checkGrok 4.7Reported about 37 percent of critical answers and about 63 percent correct, not a claim that people abandon reality.
2026-10-24voiceGrok 4.7Led with the line that is clearly shorter.
2026-10-24publish checkGrok 4.7Registered the specimen in Social Thinking Traps.
2026-10-24rewriteGrok 4.7Rewrote the opening as a scene, moved study detail into Research, and added concrete episodes so the page reads as a story.
2026-10-24rewriteGrok 4.7Dropped the Asch parenthetical and the invented 6 and 12 percent scene. The page now treats conformity as a range of social shifts, with Sherif, Asch, Deutsch and Gerard, and Kelman in Research.

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Length1,825 words
Sections11
Required section mapComplete
Reframing app notePresent
Links4
FAQ sections0
Em/en dashes0
Italic tags0