 Linquist and collaborators (2011) predicted that scientists would continue rely on the vernacular concept of innateness when reasoning in a professional context. This prediction was confirmed by Knobe and Samuels (2013) who compared naïve subjects’ responses to the same birdsong questionnaire that was developed by Griffiths et al. (2009). As the attractor hypothesis predicts, they found that scientific training had no effect on a person’s judgments about innateness. Scientists were just as likely as lay people to classify a trait as innate it if exhibits one of Typicality, Fixity or Function. This result went against Knobe and Samuels (2013) own expectations that professional scientists would exhibit a different response pattern from laypersons. A subsequent analysis of Knobe and Samuels’ (2013) data by Machery et al. (2019) took a finer-grained look at how different categories of scientist responded to questions about innateness. They found no significant difference among psychologists, linguists, and biologists in their responses to the birdsong questionnaire. This finding supports the attractor hypothesis and goes against the rival expectation that the concept of innateness functions differently in psychology or linguistics than it does in biology. Interestingly, however, Knobe and Samuels (2013) also asked researchers how “important” the concept of innateness is in their discipline. In this case, there was a significant difference among disciplines, with biologists ranking it less important than psychologist or linguists.