Saw this on one of my colleagues cubicle wall...

"The desire to conform to group pressure is very high. This was shown many years ago in an experiment by Asch (1956) in which university students were give the simple task of choosing the 2 lines of matching length from a list of several lines. They were placed in a panel with 7 confederates of the experimenter who all gave the same, obviously incorrect answer claiming that 2 lines of unequal length were identical. The unsuspecting students were last in line. When their turn came to answer the majority chose to give the same wrong answer. It appeared that this was easier to do than departing from the group consensus. The pressure of the group, even if you do not know them well, can be very strong. Interestingly engineers will insist that the lines are not equal and will give the correct response. Perrin and Spencer (1981) suggest that accuracy in measurement is a basic and essential skill for an engineer and that giving a wrong answer would be a denial of his/her personal identity."

I wonder if its a compliment or not...hah..