Social engineering - it really is a science.
Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities
J. Xie, S. Sreenivasan, G. Korniss, W. Zhang, C. Lim, and B. K. Szymanski
Phys. Rev. E 84, 011130 โ Published 22 July 2011
Abstract
We show how the prevailing majority opinion in a population can be rapidly reversed by a small fraction p of randomly distributed committed agents who consistently proselytize the opposing opinion and are immune to influence. Specifically, we show that when the committed fraction grows beyond a critical value pc โ 10%, there is a dramatic decrease in the time Tc taken for the entire population to adopt the committed opinion.
In particular, for complete graphs we show that when p < pc, Tc ~exp [ฮฑ(p)N], whereas for p pc, Tc ~lnN. We conclude with simulation results for Erdลs-Rรฉnyi random graphs and scale-free networks which show qualitatively similar behavior.
https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.011130#fulltext
Older study, but important.
Good reminder of why we are here,
and how mockingbird media works,
No access to actual study - if another anon has would be appreciated.
(see graphs next post, hope not too blurry)