Minority rules: if 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of society

Monday, July 25, 2011 - 21:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Scientists have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion.

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