Forget about 1% or 99%-The 10% rule!

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Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas

"As agents of change start to convince more and more people, the situation begins to change," Sreenivasan said. "People begin to question their own views at first and then completely adopt the new view to spread it even further. If the true believers just influenced their neighbors, that wouldn't change anything within the larger system, as we saw with percentages less than 10."
 


Aha! I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE...!

Summary from the article:
when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society.
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Very cool point. The question now is: Do we have 10 Percent of Americans believing, Unshakably, that Ron Paul is the solution we need?

If not, How do we get the remaining few percent unshakably believing in time?
 
There is a famous essay, the name of which eludes me right now, by Albert Jay Nock about the "remnant".

Here it is, "Isaiah's Job"

Isaiah's Job by Albert Jay Nock

Isaiah seems finally to have got it through his head that this was the case; that nothing was to be expected from the masses, but that if anything substantial were ever to be done in Judea, the Remnant would have to do it. This is a very striking and suggestive idea; but before going on to explore it, we need to be quite clear about our terms. What do we mean by the masses, and what by the Remnant?

As the word masses is commonly used, it suggests agglomerations of poor and underprivileged people, labouring people, proletarians, and it means nothing like that; it means simply the majority. The mass-man is one who has neither the force of intellect to apprehend the principles issuing in what we know as the humane life, nor the force of character to adhere to those principles steadily and strictly as laws of conduct; and because such people make up the great and overwhelming majority of mankind, they are called collectively the masses.

The line of differentiation between the masses and the Remnant is set invariably by quality, not by circumstance. The Remnant are those who by force of intellect are able to apprehend these principles, and by force of character are able, at least measurably, to cleave to them. The masses are those who are unable to do either.
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Ron Paul often mentions the "remnant' as his supporters, and putting him in the role of Isaiah. It's a subtle Christian reference to this essay in a libertarian context.

Nock was one of the great libertarian essayists of the turn of the 20th century.
 
Here's an example of the other end of the spectrum. 1 subject will go against his own judgment if he is the only one in the group who sees different:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnT2FcuZaYI]Asch Conformity Experiment - YouTube[/ame]
 
I found this image and just had to post it. This was the best thread I could find for it.

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