If I had to bet I would give very favorable odds that the volunteers are egalitarians. As such this is a highly humorous red-pill outcome that they just got hit with. If they allowed themselves to realize, it which is quite possible they won't since cognitive dissonance is highly disruptive and people only deal with it when they have no choice. For that, it is entirely dependent on the individual person.

On a side note cognitive dissonance is very interesting in that you almost always see the physical manifestations of it in a person. It is easily recognizable once you have seen it a few times.