I didn’t find it boring or useless. I found it quite interesting. No need to be so negative bosswipe

As of right now it's the top comment even though it's actually misleading, thus contributing the dumbing-down phenomenon its author complains about.

The other comment threads in here are discussing the actual experiment and theories. But this thread is at the top taking up a bunch of the oxygen and it's just repeating tired old media criticisms that we've all heard before. The actual experiment is way more interesting.

on the topic of "repeating tired old media criticism": there are people who might have learned it today https://xkcd.com/1053/

Confirmed. I did.