Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

[Joseph Maynor]

Try to locate the groupthink in mathematics.  

[Alexop]

14 minutes ago, emptiness dancing said:

Don't forget the never ending new edition of shoes, i mean i get it if you are pro, even then i don't see the purpose. 

All professional/serious athletes and their supporters are sport sheep. 

[Terell Kirby]

Just now, Joseph Maynor said:

Try to locate the groupthink in mathematics.  

the pythagorean theorem

[Joseph Maynor]

5 minutes ago, Terell Kirby said:

the pythagorean theorem

A picture painted a thousand words literally.

[LambdaDelta]

I went to an opera this week. Everyone was wearing the same formal attire, people paid 30€ for a glass of champagne, and applauded just because others around were doing it even when they obviously didn't truly feel like it. All of high society is one giant conformity, and Britain of the Victorian era is its most extreme caricature. 

Doing anything whatsoever out of obligation is conformity. 

[Jannes]

26 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

Try to locate the groupthink in mathematics.  

1 + 1 = 2 is groupthink. 

But thats not bad conformity. 

Bad conformity would be to buy into the math culture, to believe in rationalist superiority etc.

[Terell Kirby]

Vegetarianism in Hindu, Indian culture