OT - final table, Low M's, very passive

[glass_onion]

Something I've never seen posted about.

At a typical final table, you usually (say 8 players) have two big stacks at M=15-20 ish, and a bunch of people M=3-7. This became especially evident to me last night, as I had m=20 and everyone had m of less than 6.

My question: I've noticed that people with m less 6 get super passive in these situations where there are a lot of people with very similar, very small stacks at the FT. Does ICM account for this, that gambling on a 50/50 doesn't nescessarily double your $ev when you 'double up.' I"ve always assumed these people were very dumb/exploitable due to super-passive tendencies, and I'm typically the first to push in these situations when I have the small stack, and have had good results being the LAGTARD.

Comments?