Is it? Why?
When patients visit the ER, they often believe that whatever change in their diet that they're aware of and focused on -- like eating cabbage last week -- must be the cause of their ailment.
When parents had their children diagnosed with autism, they cast their net for the nearest change to be blamed ... and found vaccines.
Are you really saying underrepresented people don't know why they don't contribute to a project they maybe would have?
..except that here, we haven't worked out the brain-computer interface yet.
The final diagnosis is not necessarily what the patient thinks it is, but it would be grossly negligent to not ask the patient about all information they think might be relevant.
Rust's methodology suffers from severe self-selection bias and politically motivated thinking. It will unerringly produce the answers its creators want to hear; if it does not, the methodology and subject selection will "corrected" to produce such answers.
These are merely "lived experiences" as related by a self-selected group under the banner of a very specific ideology.