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I'm not offended. I encourage more studies to be done! 1200 is a large number of people, but not large relative to the number of people who consume regularly.

What I'm railing against is "news" articles that don't contextualize or think critically about the studies that are being performed, and try to generate clicks through buzz-word filled headlines.

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> 1200 is a large number of people, but not large relative to the number of people who consume regularly.

Ratio of sample to population size is mostly irrelevant for statistics. The strength of conclusions from a sample is calculated based on an infinite population size.

Recognize that this knee jerk reaction is your brain's attempt at dismissing the study and move on.

It's easy to dismiss studies that have a large number of caveats and no strict way of measuring use.

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