Popular and correct are different stats. Sometimes they’re on opposite teams.

Agreement measures how a claim travels, not whether it holds. Something can be shared a hundred thousand times and still be wrong, because what spreads is usually how a claim feels rather than how it checks out. Crowds tell you something real about people and almost nothing about facts.

Watch for the moment you reach for how many others agree as your reason. That is the tell. Ask instead what the evidence is, who gathered it, and what would look different if the opposite were true. If you cannot answer, hold the view loosely for now.