In Solomon Asch's Study on Conformity, the Number of Confederates

question 98

Multiple Choice

In Solomon Asch's study on conformity, the number of confederates was found to have a significant impact on the participants' likelihood of giving an incorrect answer. How many confederates did Asch find maximized the likelihood of conformity occurring?

• A) 2
• B) 3
• C) 6
• D) 12
• E) 15

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Definitions:

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of the middle of a dataset, commonly the mean, median, or mode.

Outliers

Data points that lie an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population, often indicating a measurement or transcription error, or a novel phenomenon.

Variance

Measures the variability or spread of a set of data points around their mean; it's calculated as the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Descriptive Statistics

Statistical methods that summarize and organize the information in a data set to describe its various features, such as mean or standard deviation, without drawing inferences about the population.