[j_baker]

Our research, which included lab studies and responses from hundreds of corporate decision makers and employees...

That doesn't seem to be the case to me.

[rosser]

FTA: "The same bias was exhibited by students in a laboratory setting."

The GP was talking specifically about the experiment design. Surveys are also notoriously unreliable as sources of meaningful data. Not that either point discounts the value of the research, of course.