Ambient Belonging 2: return of the Star Trek poster

I'm giving this its own top-level post as I suspect it would otherwise escape most people's attention:

Remember our previous discussion of the 'ambient belonging' study? The one about how environmental cues alone (Star Trek poster, comics, video-game boxes, pizza boxes, etc.) can influence how much people (don't) want to pursue computer science? In a stunning display of generosity, the contact author for that study (Prof. Sapna Cheryan) took the time to answer some of our questions on it. I've posted my mail to her, and her response (with permission) in the comment-thread to that post:

http://jonathanherzog.com/comment/1242#comment-1242

If anything, it looks like the published paper understated how much of an effect these environmental cues had...