in the confidence of the researcher and one or two minorities remain in ignorance. By using distinct lengths of wood, the majority of the group must agree that they are the same length, the individual will fight and start to get irritated, but after a while they will conform to the group” (653 ). After reading articles similar to this one, the validity of this experiment is somewhat flawed. I agree with Lessing that this is a problem, but I feel like there isn't enough evidence to support his claims. I favor the experiment used in Solomon Asch's "Opinions and Social Pressure" because the experiment is somewhat similar to Lessing's but provides much more detail to support his claim. They began using more tracks than Lessing, which increased the accuracy of the experiment's performance. Giving much the same results, it also shows that nature complies. Although the information in Lessing's article is somewhat difficult to interpret due to the lack of sufficient evidence, the fact remains

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