It's something like only 10-20% of the population (and this was back in the 50's/60's I think) are willing to go against the consensus of the room. They did those blackboard experiments where they first train one group to accept a wrong answer. Then start rotating in new people. The first group will try to convince the noobs of the incorrect, even if some of the noobs were trained to know the actual answer, something like 75-80% of them would acquiese to the first group instead of standing up for the truth.
Incidentally this is why 2-party winner take all voting is best, because the vast majority of people are immune to facts and reason, and will vote the same way they've always voted.
You can only reach a few percent of people, so in a coalition multi-party system the government can only move slightly to the left/right and make minor corrections (a few percent more left will make a slightly more left coalition), whereas in 2-party a few percent can make substantial course corrections.
These larger changes let the frog know the water is getting hot before it's too late to do anything about it.
It's something like only 10-20% of the population (and this was back in the 50's/60's I think) are willing to go against the consensus of the room. They did those blackboard experiments where they first train one group to accept a wrong answer. Then start rotating in new people. The first group will try to convince the noobs of the incorrect, even if some of the noobs were trained to know the actual answer, something like 75-80% of them would acquiese to the first group instead of standing up for the truth.
Incidentally this is why 2-party winner take all voting is best, because the vast majority of people are immune to facts and reason, and will vote the same way they've always voted.
You can only reach a few percent of people, so in a coalition multi-party system the government can only move slightly to the left/right and make minor corrections (a few percent more left will make a slightly more left coalition), whereas in 2-party a few percent can make substantial course corrections.
These larger changes let the frog know the water is getting hot before it's too late to do anything about it.