The results are only true for highly socialized and or normalized people, who become, by definition, uncritical and have low individual agency. A great many people have called them "the 'unthinking' majority" and hackers and engineers are rarely an exception to that rule.
The entire write up is a study in social engineering and how to keep people below _their_ or _an_ in-group maximum average. It's the curse of failing relationships, marriages and so on and a top of the list reason for why from the hippies to festival goers nobody notices that they are expandable factory farmed milking cows whose productivity and constructiveness tastes bad and damages the (social) brain & body. Be like us, dance like us, produce like us, feel like us, talk like us, ... ...
The entire write up is a study in social engineering and how to keep people below _their_ or _an_ in-group maximum average. It's the curse of failing relationships, marriages and so on and a top of the list reason for why from the hippies to festival goers nobody notices that they are expandable factory farmed milking cows whose productivity and constructiveness tastes bad and damages the (social) brain & body. Be like us, dance like us, produce like us, feel like us, talk like us, ... ...