solomon asch continued

. After letting the participant observe the second card, he went down the line of 7 staged people and asked them which line on the card matched the original card. They told their answer out loud for the rest of the participants to hear. Each participant said the obviously correct answer, including the newest participant. He then repeated this task 3 times. However, on the third trial, the 7 staged participants said the same obviously incorrect answer. This was to test whether the newest participant would say the correct answer, or follow their peers and say the wrong answer despite it being obviously incorrect. As a result, Asch found that at 75% of the participants said the incorrect answer with the rest of the group at least one time throughout the trials. This experiments proved that people can depend on conformity in group settings, seeing as the participant said the incorrect answer when the rest of the 7 group members said it.  It is interesting to see how someone’s answer can be so greatly affected by their group members even when the correct answer is obvious. When the other participants said the incorrect answer, the participant must have questioned their own thoughts or were too nervous to go against the norm.