Exercise 2: Why "74% Conformed At Least Once" and "64.3% of Responses Stayed Correct" Don't Contradict Each Other — Possible Solution ================================================================================================================================================= These two real numbers are measuring genuinely different units, which is exactly why they can both be true at once without any contradiction. The 74% figure counts PEOPLE - specifically, the share of the roughly 50 real participants who gave at least one incorrect, conforming answer somewhere across their own 12 critical trials. A person only needs to conform ONE single time out of twelve real opportunities to be counted inside that 74% - the figure says nothing at all about how often that same person conformed beyond that one instance. The 64.3% figure, by contrast, counts individual RESPONSES, not people - it's the share of all the individual trial-by-trial answers, pooled together across every participant and every critical trial, that stayed correct despite the group pressure. This is a completely different unit of measurement: one person contributes twelve separate responses to this total, not just one. So a real, fully consistent scenario looks like this: most people gave a wrong, conforming answer only occasionally rather than on every single trial - meaning a large share of individual people (74%) can each have contributed just one or two conforming responses to the pool, while the large majority of all the individual responses put together (64.3%) still land on the correct side. Both numbers describe the same real dataset accurately - they're simply counting two different things: how many PEOPLE conformed at least once, versus how many total RESPONSES were correct. ANSWER: These numbers aren't contradictory because they count different units - 74% is the share of PEOPLE who conformed at least once across their twelve trials, while 64.3% is the share of all individual RESPONSES, pooled across everyone, that stayed correct. A person only needs one conforming answer to count toward the 74%, so it's fully consistent for most individual responses to still be correct even though most people conformed at least once somewhere along the way. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This identifies the real unit-of-measurement distinction (people vs. individual responses) that resolves the apparent contradiction between the two statistics.