The editorialised TL;DR An experiment was set up for a TV show using a very small sample to achieve a particular outcome. Sure enough, said outcome was achieve

The editorialised TL;DR An experiment was set up for a TV show using a very small sample to achieve a particular outcome. Sure enough, said outcome was achieved. I appreciate it's not intended to be science, it's a TV show. And I'm sure that there are likely to be actual studies that do actually show that the effect is real. I understand all that (though a link would have been nice, it is the internet after all). But for some reason I find it bloody irritating. Don't know why. Maybe I'm not getting enough exercise.