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If Fishes Were Wishes
An experiment with the golden shiner fish suggests that the uninformed individuals in a group can completely change that group's dynamic by diluting the minority opinion, thus allowing the majority to predominate. Can this phenomenon be generalized to humans ~ and to voters, in particular?: http://www.miller-mccune.com/politics/why-a-democracy-needs-uninformed-people-38398/
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