Ok but... While reading that, did you at any point wonder the ethnicity, gender and approximate age of the author? Because I was less than surprised when I saw him at the end of the article.
On the other, it's ironic because the author is a specifically controversial character: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Michael_Shermer#Accusations_of...
The point I was trying to jokingly bring up is a valid one, I think. How much of what we do leaks identity-related metadata? How much are of the responses we get are responses to that inferred metadata?