re: Peter's Principle

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The bandwagon effect is a phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others. In other words, the bandwagon effect is characterized by the probability of individual adoption increasing with respect to the proportion who have already done so.

As more people come to believe in something, others also "hop on the bandwagon" regardless of the underlying evidence.

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