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What seems to be going on in this last exchange is a ping-pong game where people get to point at whatever "example" they can think of that seems to favor a "high" or a "low" status hypothesis. "High status, look at X." - "No, low status, look at Y".
That's very frustrating, and each such exchange (there have been others, concerning the other examples from the OP) nudges me one notch away from assigning credibility to "status" hypotheses; I assume that's counter to the posters' original intentions.
Where are the falsifiable predictions made in advance of the evidence? How would I go about constructing one such prediction and testing it?
My most recent memory of seeing this is on TV yesterday, when some dude talking to a camera broke eye contact to look up while mentioning how his fate in a some silly contest was to be decided by his favorite deity. He didn't look disrespectful to me (just silly), and I'd predict he wouldn't have looked disrespectful to most viewers.