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Sounds like you didn't read the parent post carefully? He wrote:

> I didn't know how to write a for loop

If

I'll bet a choklate bar that 100% of all developers who spent 6 year using Haskell knows what a for-loop is.
What kind of coding did you do for 6 years if after that time you couldn't identify a for-loop?
But does it really debunk that effect?

The article essentially claims that the more people there are the more likely it is that _someone_ will intervene. Which isn't the same as no one feeling less inclined to help since there are other people around.