Don't let the annoying people speak for you

The link below goes to an interesting blog post about a psychology study that found how easy it is to convince people that your opinion is the opinion of the majority: repeat yourself 3 times. It's almost (90%) as effective as getting two other people to state the same opinion once.

If someone does repeat their opinion in a group conversation and no one else ever counters or challenges it, we tend to assume that everyone else in the group agrees with that person.

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