They also happen to often fall into the exact demographics right wing fringe theories cater to. Men in tech who grew up on a diet of nerd culture with sexist tropes will find it easier to believe evopsych nonsense that "women are just not biologically capable of achieving greatness in tech", white and Asian guys will find it easier to believe that they just lucked into being racially predisposed to being smarter. Worse, the discrimination perpetuated by these ideas may even be misinterpreted as evidence (because after all, they don't think sociology is a field that has any merit).