Excessive conformity stifles innovation. It also leads to uproductive behaviour. As a former public servant, I witnessed ridiculously unproductive activities because the behavioural norm was to avoid risk at all cost and punish those who seemed 'risky'. Was gobsmacked at the extent to which 'unusual' behaviour was frowned upon at the same time as pathetic paper-shuffling to avoid risk was rewarded.
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Unanimity has been shown to be very important in Asch's study. With unanimity among the stooges, there was around 35% conformity and errors. With a previous stooge breaking unanimity and giving the correct answer, this percentage was much lower. Allen and Levine have shown that this is true even if the stooge that breaks unanimity appears to have poor eyesight.
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