[Aurornis]

> So, you have a lot of people commenting here that this is obvious common sense

There's a lot of reductionist commentary that happens under these links primarily because people aren't reading past the headline or a brief skim of the article.

The topic might be common sense, but measuring and quantifying it with hard data is valuable.

The PR-massaged headlines usually omit the interesting parts and focus on something basic because they want to appeal to a wide audience, not because the study itself was so simplistic that it could be summarized by a headline.