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title: "Majority Illusion"
tags: society psychology permanent-notes
date: 2020-12-19 19:49:54
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# Majority Illusion

Social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare. Its the local impression that a specific attribute is common when the global truth is entirely different.
Eg. In a group of 5 people, 1 person is a drinker and others are drinkers. Everyone in the group is friend with one person and the drinker. So 4 people will see that 50% of their friends are drinkers - even though, in reality only 20% of the 5 is a drinker.

[[Connections in People Groups]]

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### Tags
#society #psychology #permanent-notes