[baxtr]

Is that actually a fact?

[wizzwizz4]

No, all this evidence is made up. So: how likely do you think it is that humans really behave like this?

[willvarfar]

I don't mean to be paranoid, but do you think the article might be misinformation in some study of the collective gullibility of the HN crowd?

[danaris]

Well, given that it was published in the New Yorker 3 years ago, it clearly wasn't written primarily for us.

Given that it is discussing the results of actual psychological studies (that I have seen talked about in a number of other places), it is vanishingly unlikely that it is in some way intended to study anyone's gullibility.