https://twitter.com/baumard_nicolas/status/1308715606196342784 The thread and a different thread by someone else explaining why this is okay https://twitter.com/beausievers/status/1309486084485779457 Here is one selected quote,

They then ask a set of broader questions, something like "What are the relationships between trustworthiness displays, survey measures of trust, and other cultural/sociopolitical factors, including GDP?"

All of this is coming from an incredibly euro-centric perspective and it's something that is not addressed enough or clearly at all which just further complicates things when they explain it's not actually racist.