It depends substantially on the cat-callers’ motivation. If he thought the behavior was high status, how should others indicate the behavior is low status?
As you say, some proportion of cat-callers will code your intervention as low status and therefore not worth listening to. But some people really don’t have a good sense of what the appropriate behavior is, and it is hard to classify three distinction with only behavioral data.
It depends substantially on the cat-callers’ motivation. If he thought the behavior was high status, how should others indicate the behavior is low status?
As you say, some proportion of cat-callers will code your intervention as low status and therefore not worth listening to. But some people really don’t have a good sense of what the appropriate behavior is, and it is hard to classify three distinction with only behavioral data.