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Where individual judgment checks its coat at the door.
means A large gathering of people, or the pressure of thinking and acting like everyone else nearby.
from From Old English 'crudan,' meaning to press or push, related to Dutch 'kruien' (to shove, as in wheeling a barrow). The word started as a verb about physical shoving before it settled into a noun for the mass of people doing the shoving.
- wisdom paradox
- crowds guess averages well, judge morals terribly
- critical mass
- panic can start with just 5 percent acting scared
- density danger
- crowd crushes kill via pressure, not trampling, usually
- collective noun
- murmuration, herd, mob — same physics, different manners