Hello everyone. The previous demonstration was my own social experiment to see
how many of
my friends
people would believe my reads without providing "evidence"/explanation
.
Apparently, zero.
That sucked. Although the parameters of the experiment did not include the whole town, as they were busy from Christmas, et cetera, it DID involve people whom I know and have a history with, specifically Wisdom, Nacho, Pieguy, and ArcAngel. (Most notoriously Wisdom. baka)
Despite my methods of attempting to reach out to each individual, using variants of AtE, AtH, AtP, whatever I can think of, to deliver an unchanging message "Bulbazak is town", without explanation, it appears that these methods fail in comparison to a shabby, manufactured case which I could have done in 1 post, and 30 minutes. Instead, in pursuit of the social experiment, the total time taken on "proving Bulbazak town", took more than 100 posts and a collective time of more than 2 hours. Let me just remind you that cases can be made by scum as well as town, and using that as a key base to change your opinion (Note: might not change opinion, will try again in future experiments), is extremely naive, in contrast to the effort that one puts in to yell "Bulbazak is town" for 40 pages is more than the effort put in to make a convoluted, but true case of "Bulbazak is town".
On the other hand, Tammy/Mollie believed my pleas and read Bulbazak as town as a result. It is interesting to note that they immediately faced a backlash and pressure from the Wisdom/Nacho hydra.
Although this is a small sample size of only 5, and personalities and persuasion levels may change from person to person, 80% of the blind-testing participants responded negatively to truth w/o explanation, that is, when presented a statement which seems intuitively wrong but emphasized as fact, without an explanation , it is likely that they would reject it. This is known as a veridical paradox. Parallels can be drawn to the Monty Hall problem, where a simple probability problem where intuition would suggest the wrong answer, caused more than 10,000 people, including 1,000 with PhDs(I'm looking at you, nacho, you should know better) to reject the correct answer that was proposed by a magazine. Oh, and that magazine then had to provide mathematical proof, evidence, you-name-it, and there were still people who insisted that they were wrong.
Despite all this, it should be stated that the alignments of the above 5 players are unknown, though assumed town. They might be scum, and might have their own personal agendas. However, a scum would also know that Bulbazak is town, or at least not on their team, and thus might have "joined the winning side".
Nevertheless, this experiment has led to interesting results, and I am glad that this is a social forum, or one that emphasizes on interpersonal communication, in order to facilitate this. I certainly would not have been able to enact this in real life. Although the conclusions drawn here might not apply to real life, or even possibly the next game, it is something good to take note of, in order to understand human psychology better.
Thank you.