There are times when studies are conducted mostly to confirm commonly-held beliefs. There’s nothing wrong with these, in part because a lot of once commonly-held beliefs were never right.
However, we also have people who claim things we actually know definitively to be true actually aren’t because it runs counter to their political beliefs.
In cases like that, it’s always good to have a study like this to smack those people back to reality.
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