Just scanning this, but it looks like a huge attractor for conformity is baked into the model, in eq 3.1. Each agent prefers to be some number of standard devia

Just scanning this, but it looks like a huge attractor for conformity is baked into the model, in eq 3.1. Each agent prefers to be some number of standard deviations from the mean. If conformity increases, the standard deviation shrinks and all preferred distances from a fixed point (the mean) shrink. They note it themselves, that if the entire population starts at the same point, it is an equilibrium, regardless of how the other model variables are initialized. This seems to me entirely artificial.