It would be good to read the study's paper. Studies often don't reach any explicit conclusions, which is one of the important features of the scientific process. Other people make inferences that aren't supported by the actual findings.
Some studies are intentionally deceptive, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97299. I've pointed that one out a few times over the years, since it's such an excellent showcase of incentives gone wrong. The researcher ended up getting a lot of funding, partly thanks to the pretense of "rat brain flies plane." No one bothered to try to pull apart their paper.
It takes a lot of effort to do this. The only reason I spent hours reverse engineering that paper was because of how excited I was about the implications. Discovering that it was nothing more than a rube goldberg nearly shattered my faith in academia. Especially the realization that sometimes researchers have to do that sort of thing to get funding, or lose.
It's entirely possible that what you said is true. All I'm saying is, it's best to seek out the original paper. (If it's locked behind a paywall, post a request to /r/scholar and you'll usually get it in under an hour.) Sometimes the truth is quite different from appearances.
Some studies are intentionally deceptive, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97299. I've pointed that one out a few times over the years, since it's such an excellent showcase of incentives gone wrong. The researcher ended up getting a lot of funding, partly thanks to the pretense of "rat brain flies plane." No one bothered to try to pull apart their paper.
It takes a lot of effort to do this. The only reason I spent hours reverse engineering that paper was because of how excited I was about the implications. Discovering that it was nothing more than a rube goldberg nearly shattered my faith in academia. Especially the realization that sometimes researchers have to do that sort of thing to get funding, or lose.
It's entirely possible that what you said is true. All I'm saying is, it's best to seek out the original paper. (If it's locked behind a paywall, post a request to /r/scholar and you'll usually get it in under an hour.) Sometimes the truth is quite different from appearances.