[brookst]

I’m not sure different people would produce a different outcome. Maybe?

But if you think of it as a statistical mixture problem, there is some sample size where the same aggregate personality emerges in the crowd, much like we expect any given sample of air to have the same characteristics.

So many it’s a question of whether the sample size was large enough to represent the overall population? (“Population” might just be “those who go to this kind of thing” and not all humanity)

[orbital-decay]

At any scale, especially at the scale where the aggregate personality is going to become visible, the collective behavior will dominate the individual behavior. You won't be able to separate the two unless you modify the experiment to include another part with meaningfully isolated individuals.

[vlunkr]

> “Population” might just be “those who go to this kind of thing” and not all humanity

Yeah this is the key. The audience is a group of people interested in performance art. They didn't show up for a 6 event where nothing happens.