Pluralistic Ignorance¶
Miller, D. T., & McFarland, C. (1987). Pluralistic Ignorance: When Similarity Is Interpreted as Dissimilarity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53(2), 298-305.
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- Pluralistic Ignorance
- This produces the shared self-classification-as-exception: each of the \(N\) students concludes "I am the only one who doesn't get it," and since all \(N\) reason identically, the result is \(N\) students who each privately do not understand while each believing themselves the lone exception in a room of comprehenders — a perfect inversion of the first-order truth.
This sourceDemonstrates the classroom case — students fearing they alone do not understand stay silent, each misreading shared silence as comprehension.
- This produces the shared self-classification-as-exception: each of the \(N\) students concludes "I am the only one who doesn't get it," and since all \(N\) reason identically, the result is \(N\) students who each privately do not understand while each believing themselves the lone exception in a room of comprehenders — a perfect inversion of the first-order truth.
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