majority of people

the majority of people don’t even realize after WW2 the western world has been manipulated to feed off them. That’s why we have women’s rights and civil rights and school to brainwash children. That’s why in the 1960s anyone could get a record deal. Now today the music industry hires only what they want people to hear and what profits them the most.

majority of people are brainwashed and asleep. Keep staring into the abyss. heehee

by Zatarain’s Root Beer Drinker October 17, 2020

Majority Of The Half

A decision making tool that can be used to facilitate a prompt time-boxed decision. The majority of the half is 25% or greater in any decision process.


Dan 10/16/2005: Unfortunately, the MajorityOfTheHalf is only applicable to binary decisions.

To be explicit here's a matrix:

Group Size Majority Of The Half
1 1
2 1
3 1
4 1
5 2
6 2
7 2
8 2
9 3
10 3

by Mr T Roll June 25, 2008

Majority queued

A phrase to describe what happens when you are standing and waiting for something, and then a bunch of people come and form a line next to you. Hence causing you to have to go to the back of it.

Dude, i got to the stand first, then everyone else got there and majority queued me to the back

by Wr. Wan October 9, 2010

majority steak

When you pig the fuck out on steak.

Don’t hang out with D. He always takes the majority steak.

by Fijjuggsgjijhhyggggg-about it November 4, 2019

Majority Bias

A cognitive and social tendency to instinctively side with, trust, and defer to the perceived majority opinion within a group, regardless of the opinion's factual or ethical merits. It's the mental shortcut that "if most people believe it, it must be true/safe/right." This bias underpins conformity, groupthink, and the chilling effect where dissenting voices are silenced not by law, but by the sheer social weight of assumed consensus.

Example: In a meeting, even members who privately doubt a plan will remain silent and eventually agree once they perceive (rightly or wrongly) that "most people" are for it. This Majority Bias creates false unanimity and leads to disastrous decisions because the actual distribution of critical thought is hidden by the fear of being the outlier.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026

Majority Picking

A manipulative communication tactic where a speaker claims their position is the "majority view" without robust evidence, or by cherry-picking a single favorable poll, to create a bandwagon effect and pressure dissenters into silence. It's the manufacturing of a false consensus to win an argument through social pressure, not persuasion.

Majority Picking Example: During a company debate about returning to the office, a manager says, "I've talked to a lot of people, and the majority really want to be back full-time." They have no survey data—they've just "picked" the opinions of a few like-minded senior staff to present as the majority will, quashing the concerns of silent younger employees.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026

Majority Neutrality Bias

The belief that the most common or popular position on an issue is automatically the most neutral one—that consensus equals objectivity. The Majority Neutralist assumes that if most people believe something, that belief must be free of bias, because bias is deviation from the norm. This flips the actual relationship: majorities have the most powerful biases, the ones that get to dress up as "common sense" precisely because they're invisible to those who hold them. The majority view isn't neutral—it's just the bias you don't have to defend.

"Most people in this country agree with me, so I'm obviously not biased—I'm just normal." That's Majority Neutrality Bias: mistaking the water you're swimming in for the absence of water.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 22, 2026