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KiwasiGames t1_iw6bkmm wrote

Another possibility is that the cultural contexts pilots came from and existed in changed over those thirty years. Human psychology isn’t a constant.

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reallynotburner t1_iw7ewbc wrote

My hypothesis was that they used shittier science. Yours is a more likely scenario.

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KiwasiGames t1_iwax6sx wrote

It’s psychology, so yours is entirely possible. Historical psychological experimentation has been plagued with societal bias. And todays sometimes isn’t much better.

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