Careful, or people might begin repeating this so much that it will become a fact.
Honestly... I wouldn't be too surprised if some scientific "study" actually did claim this, or at least some pop science magazine interpreted a study this way. People would believe it. PhDs at education schools would probably even quote it over and over again. A carefully crafted scientific "study" can "prove" anything to most people.
Facts by their nature are independent of human agreement. The Earth is around 4.2 billion years old and just because ancient Greeks thought it was mere hundreds of thousands didn't change that fact.
You took what I said too literally.
Now clever thought plus lots of patterns, that's a potent combination.